They are very fond of the young flowers and buds of the mahua tree, and tamarind fruits, the acidity of which is removed by mixing with them the ashes of the bark of the same tree.
In the absence of toddy, they sometimes manufacture illicit liquor from the flower-buds of the mahua (or mowhra) tree.
At a Binjhwar wedding an arrow is laid on the trunk of mahua [382] which forms the marriage-post, and honours are paid to it as representing the bridegroom.
Among the Birjhias a trunk of mahua with two branches is erected in the marriage-shed, and on this a dagger is placed in a winnowing-fan filled with rice, the former representing the bridegroom and the latter the bride.
The Baiga dearly loves the common country liquor made from the mahua flower, and this is consumed as largely as funds will permit of at weddings, funerals and other social gatherings, and also if obtainable at other times.
They either mix the poison with mahua flowers strewn on the grazing-ground, or make it into a ball with butter and insert it into the anus of the animal when the herdsman is absent.
They think that this worship and dance will cause the karma tree, the mango, the jack-fruit and the mahua to bear a full crop of fruit.
At a wedding the couple walk seven times round the sacred post, which must be of wood of the mahua [309] tree, and on its conclusion the post is taken to a river or stream and consigned to the water.
Similarly the Gonds and Baigas revere the mahua tree and consider the liquor distilled from its flowers as sacred and purificatory.
A marriage-shed is erected and a post of the mahua tree fixed inside it.
Similarly when the mahua flowers, from which country spirit is made, first appear, they proceed to the forest and worship under a saj tree.
In the Central Provinces the liquor drunk is nearly all distilled from the flowers of the mahua tree (Bassia latifolia), though elsewhere it is often made from cane sugar.
The worship of the village gods is communal, and in Chhindwara is performed at the end of the hot weather before seed is sown, houses thatched, or the new mahua oil eaten by the Gonds.
The Bhatras of Bastar also use themahua for the wedding post, and the Sonkars of Chhattisgarh a forked branch of the tree.
The signal for the outbreak was given by passing a knotted string from village to village; other signals were a bent arrow and a branch of a mahua tree.
The smell of the fermented mahua and the refuse water lying about make the village liquor-shop an unattractive place.
The country liquor, consisting of spirits distilled from the flowers of the mahua tree, is an indispensable adjunct to marriage and other ceremonial feasts among the lower castes of Hindus and the non-Aryan tribes.
Branches of the mahua tree are placed on the altar, and after the conclusion of the ceremony are thrown into a tank.
At the wedding some of this rice with pulse is placed with a twig of mahua in a hole in the marriage-shed and addressed: 'You are the goddess Lachhmi; you have come to assist in the marriage.
The body of an adult may also be burnt under a mahua tree so that the tree may give him a supply of liquor in the next world.
Palm-juice toddy is a favourite drink at almost all meals in Gujarat, andmahua spirit is also taken.
At their weddings the sacred post round which the couple walk must consist of a forked bough of the mahua tree divided in a V shape, and they take much trouble to find and cut a suitable bough.
Broach ranks next to Bombay in the prosperity of its Parsis; they deal extensively in cotton, timber, fuel and the manufacture of spirit from the flowers of the mahua tree.
Both the toddy of the date-palm and mahua spirit are freely consumed at their feasts, while the rich members of the community drink European wines and spirits.
The Bagdis and Bauris of Bengal are married in an arbour made of the branches of the Sal (Shorea robusta) after they have been first married to a Mahua tree (Bassia latifolia).
Some of the semi-Hinduized Bengal Gonds have the remarkable custom of tying the corpses of adult males by a cord to the Mahua tree, in an upright position, previous to burial.
The mahua flowers are falling from the trees on the hill; leave me your cloth so that I may know you will return.
The country spirit generally drunk is distilled from the flowers of the mahua tree, and a cheap vegetable oil in common use is obtained from its seeds.
In the Uriya country if no suitable husband can be found for a girl she is sometimes made to go through the marriage ceremony with a peg of mahua wood driven into the ground and covered over with a cloth.
Farmservants eat the gruel of rice or kodon boiled in water when they can afford it, and if not they eat mahua flowers.
After the picking of the flowers of the mahua [200] they worship that tree, offering to it some of the liquor distilled from the new flowers, with a fowl and a goat.
After the marriage the bride and the bridegroom have a ceremony of throwing a mahua branch into a river together.
Bura Deo is always enshrined under a tree outside the village, either of the mahua or saj (Terminalia tomentosa) varieties.
An arrow is tied to her hand, and she goes seven times round a mahua branch stuck on an improvised altar, and drinks ghi and oil, thus creating the fiction of a marriage.
A cock, some Mahua (Bassia latifolia) and parched grain are offered to her.
So, the Kharwars have a sacred Mahua tree, known as the Byahi Mahua or "Mahua of marriage," on which threads are hung at marriages.
Those who are unable to attend this tribal gathering perform similar rites at home under the shade of the Mahua tree (Bassia latifolia).
On the Indian continent arrack is made from palm toddy, rice and the refuse of the sugar refineries, but mainly from the flowers of the muohwa or mahua tree (Bassia latifolia).
The mahua flowers are very rich in sugar, and may, according to H.
On the afternoon of the tenth day, some men whom Mahuahad set to watch for Tetoro's fleet saw the great mat sails of five war canoes sweeping across the long line of palms that fringed the southern beach?
Patrols from Otto’s detachment from Mahua had also reconnoitred as far as the region south of the Lurio.
On 6th May it became apparent that the report of strong enemy forces on the Nanungu-Mahua road, which had caused my retirement, was incorrect.
I therefore withdrew during the night with the greater part of my force, via Makoti, to the Nanungu-Mahua road.
About midnight it was reported that one of our patrols had encountered a strong enemy force on the Nanungu-Mahua road.
He passed round Mahua and surprised, south-west of this place, the fortified supply depot of Kanene.
I thought at first that these were only enemy patrols, so sent Captain Schulz there with a strong patrol as a reinforcement, and myself marched on the 4th of May, with the main body, to the Nanungu-Mahua road.
The man’s health was, however, so undermined by lingering malaria and his spleen so terribly swollen that he had to be carried from Mahua to a plantation near Malacotera.
Captain Müller, who, after years of work at Headquarters, had taken over an independent detachment of two companies, was sent on from the neighbourhood of Nanungu to Mahua to harass the enemy as far as possible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mahua" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
