A Deva-dasi is also deputed to walk at the head of Hindu marriage processions.
As a Deva-dasi (dancing-girl) can never become a widow, the beads in her tali are considered to bring good luck to those who wear them.
All the Kaikolans deny their connection with the Deva-dasi (dancing-girl) caste.
But Kaikolans freely take meals in Dasi houses on ceremonial occasions, and it would not be difficult to cite cases of genuine Dasis who have relationship with rich Kaikolans.
When a Dasi dies, her body is covered with a new cloth removed from the idol, and flowers are supplied from the temple, to which she belonged.
Kondalam means women's hair or a kind of dance, and it is possible that the name was returned by people of the Deva-dasi caste, who are rising in the social scale, and becoming absorbed in the Vellala caste.
For this, the woman's male relations, in conjunction with the Brahmans of the neighbourhood, interrogate the Dasi or Nayar maid-servant attached to the suspected woman.
Nanchinad Vellala has been assumed by males of the Deva-dasi caste in Travancore.
As a Dasi can never become a widow, the beads in her tali are considered to bring good luck to women who wear them.
The men of the Sanis do not act as accompanists to their women at nautch parties, as Bogam andDasi men do.
By way of distinction, a Dasi in active service is referred to as atumpatram.
A Dasi is also deputed to walk at the head of Hindu marriage processions.
When a Kaikolan Dasi dies, her body is covered with a new cloth removed from the idol, and flowers are supplied from the temple, to which she belonged.
The Devo Dasi actually go to the length of wearing clothes!
The Nautch girls are purchased in infancy, and as carefully trained in their wordly way as the Devo Dasi for the diviner function, being about equally depraved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dasi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
