They are much influenced by Brahmanical priests, by whom they are guided in their ceremonial observances, and have adopted the dhare form of marriage (see Bant).
In the arsenal of the Pudukkottai Raja a stock of wooden boomerangs is always kept.
On the auspicious day appointed for the marriage, the relations of the bride go to the bridegroom's house, and fetch him in a palanquin.
Oppert writes [46] that "boomerangs are used by the Tamil Maravans and Kallans when hunting deer.
A man convicted of undue intimacy with a widow is expelled from the caste, unless she consents to his leaving her and going back to the caste, and he provides her with adequate means to live separately.
In the Canara country, the essential and binding part of the marriage ceremony is called dhare (see Bant).
Infant marriage is not compulsory, and they have the dhare form of marriage.
An interesting feature in connection therewith is that, during the dhare ceremony, a screen is interposed between the bride and bridegroom at the time when the dhare water is poured.
Those assembled then call the maternal uncles of the bridal couple, and they approach the cot.
The bridegroom's uncle gives the red cloth already referred to to the uncle of the bride.
There are two forms of marriage, one called kai dhare for marriages between virgins and bachelors, the other called budu dhare for the marriage of widows.
He then requests permission of the three nagara people, seven gotra people, and the relatives of the bride and bridegroom to proceed with the dhare ceremony.
At a Parivara marriage, after the dhare ceremony, the bridegroom ties a gold bead, called dhare mani, on the neck of the bride.
He joins the hands of the contracting couple, and their parents, or the headman, place the nose-screw of the bridesmaid on their hands, and pour the dhare water over them.
Sometimes, one couple is allowed to wear the bashingam, and another to have the dhare water first poured over them.
This part of the ceremonial is called dhare (pouring of water).
This is symbolical of the dhare ceremony, and completes the marriage.
If a man has intercourse with a woman, and she becomes pregnant, he has to marry her according to the bidu dhare rite.
At marriages, the pouring of the dhare water over the united hands of the bride and bridegroom is the duty of the father or maternal uncle of the bride, not of the headman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dhare" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
