Footnote 94: Urbs Venusina nitet tantis decorata sepulchris, is one of the last lines of the Apulian's poems, (l.
Risley is of opinion that the Tantis are probably a functional group developed under the pressure of the natural demand for fine woven cloth.
Thus the Tantis made the world-renowned fine muslins of Dacca; and the Jagannathia Kumhars of Orissa provide the earthen vessels used for the distribution of rice to all pilgrims at the temple of Jagannath.
A few Tantiswere enumerated in Raipur District in 1911.
In Bengal theTantis are included among the castes from whom a Brahman can take water.
The ordinary status of the weaving castes being at the bottom of the social scale, the superior position of the Bengal Tantis is an interesting exception.
In past times the Tantis made the famous fine cotton cloth, known as abrawan or 'running water,' which was supplied only to the imperial zenana at Delhi.
The third book commences very spiritedly with an eulogy of Epicurus: "E tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen Qui primus potuisti, illustrans commoda vitae, Te sequor, O Graiae gentis decus!
This sudden and beautiful apostrophe is weakened and destroyed by a change to "O tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tantis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
