Shanar Christians have, in many cases, given up tapping the palmyra palm for jaggery and toddy as a profession beneath them; and their example is spreading, so that a real economic impasse is manifesting itself.
Margoeschis writes, [172] "observe a special day at the commencement of the palmyra season, when the jaggery season begins.
The bridegroom places some cummin seed and jaggery (crude sugar) on the bride's head, and the bride does the same to the bridegroom.
When the cocoanut and jaggery are given, they must be in strips, and put into the bride's mouth partly projecting.
The jaggery is then distributed to all present, and the new-born infant is cleaned with cow-dung and washed.
If cow's milk has to be given, it should at first be mixed with water in the proportion of three to one, and then heated until it just begins to boil, when a little of pure jaggery should also be added.
On the third day, called panaka puja or mahanevedyam, jaggery water is offered, and cocoanuts, and other offerings are laid before the goddess.
At the entrance, the maternal uncle of the bride stands holding in his crossed hands two vessels, one of which contains water, and the other water with jaggery (crude sugar) dissolved in it.
For this reason they object generally to accepting ghee (clarified butter) or jaggery (crude sugar), etc.
For example, the manufacture ofjaggery (crude sugar) is an industry in which a considerable number of the Tiyas are profitably engaged.
For the first three days the woman is given a dose of dried ginger mixed with palmyra (Borassus flabellifer) jaggery (crude sugar), and for the next three days a mixture of garlic and jaggery.
To the right of each plate, a little jaggery (unrefined sugar) is placed on a piece of plantain leaf.
After the ceremony is over, the parents of the child's mother have to send about half a bag of rice flour mixed with jaggery to her husband's house.
On this is placed another leaf, with various kinds of grain, plantains, cocoanuts, andjaggery on it.
Jaggery (crude sugar) and cocoanut scrapings are mixed with the rice, which is placed in a cup by seven women.
The purohit rubs a little jaggery over the bridegroom's right palm, joins it to the palm of the bride, and ties their two hands together with a rope made of kusa grass (hasthagonti).
Towards evening the newly married couple sit inside the house, and close to them is placed a big brass vessel containing a mixture of cooked rice, jaggery (crude sugar) and curds, which is brought by the women already referred to.
Beaten rice, and rice flour mixed withjaggery (crude sugar) are served out to those assembled.
They then play seven times with cowry shells, and the ceremonial closes with the throwing of Zizyphus leaves, and the eating by the bride and bridegroom of rice mixed with jaggery (crude sugar) and curds.
The gourd called churakhai, palmyra fruit, and palmyra jaggeryare taboo to the Nambutiri at all times.
Her dietary includes jaggery (crude sugar) and milk and plantains.
It must be remembered that the child is not fed on rice for some time after birth, the practice being to give it flour of dried plantain boiled with jaggery (crude sugar).
When not engaged as domestics the Wahumpurapangu tenants supply jaggery and kitul-peni.
It is very commonly used by way of a bottle for keeping jaggery or honey in.
When the news of his death reached her, at the profusely laden breakfast-table at Jaggery House, Clapham Common, her first feeling was one of scornful anger towards a Providence which could be so careless.
They had to do it very quietly indeed with Mrs. Agar, who endeavoured strenuously to get the best value for her money all through life; a remnant of Jaggery House, Clapham Common, which the placid wealth of Stagholme never obliterated.
He had never forgiven Mrs. Agar the insults she heaped upon his head in the drawing-room of Jaggery House.
The ropes used for the latter purpose were made of the kittool or jaggery palm, as they are of a more flexible nature than those of the cocoa-nut fibre, and less likely to cause ulcers on the poor elephants' legs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jaggery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
