the ethnological notebooks of karl marx - Marxists Internet Archive

Puja dalan: die verandah, deren chief purpose to serve as a stage for theperformance of religious and domestic ceremonies.Shamiana. (Tent ca(ri)vas stretched horizontally across, as a covering fromside to side of a quadrangle, or from top to top of poles, firmly fixed inthe ground-awning.Thakurbäriy chamber where the figure of the family deity (thakur) residesu. where its daily service u. worship is performed. Weiber dürfen nichtselbst worship the family idol or any visible thakur, ausser der clay figureof Siwa made for every day worship. The Shastras forbid to women andSudras all knowledge and use of sacred texts.Hat d. Familie 3 or 4 generations removed von d. common ancestorerreicht, so there several heads of branches; diese branches settle themselves bystirpes, in separate parts of the house under their own heads; manchmald. Separation so complete that the portion of the house allotted to eachbranch is parted off from the remainder of the house by blocking up ofdoors, and by the opening of a separate entrance. Each group as a rulemesses by itself, and every adult member of it has a room to himself inwhich he lives, all the female members together in the inner apartments,commonly called among Europeans the Zenana. All the branches usuallykeep joint with regard to the worship of the family deity. Und selbst when thebranches sever in everything - i.e. in foodt worship, and estate - the same familydeity is commonly retained by all, and the worship conducted by the differentbranches in turn, each turn proportionate in duration to the owners' share in thejoint property. Z.B. if family in its divided state is represented by 4 heads,2 brothers, and their 2 nephews, sons of a 3d brother deceased, the turn orpallas of worship would be respectively 4 months, 2 months and15 2 monthsor equimultiples of these. (85, 86)Nur in Calcutta u. ändern sehr large towns the family swarm continues inthe family hive at such dimensions. Aber in country villages, wo d. Zamindar’sfamily sich maintained for many generations, much about thesame thing occurs. (86)Maidany an open grass-covered space; mandir a temple; mandap an opensided roofed structure, or building. Majlis an assembly.18 Mohan thesuperior of a math (an endowed temple or shrine; math dag(e)gen theopen arable plain, forming the cultivated land of a village.) Gaddi, a seat.Grave and Gay.Inordinate love of spectacles. (89) Drinking to a considerable extent. “In aportion of the Veds the delights of intoxication are dwelt upon, and someof the tantric writings devoted to the encouragement of drink.... tarispirit made from many sorts of saccharine juices, especially the juice of thetari palm, is made largely in every village by crude native methods, isevidently of purely home origin. (90)Bengali of all ranks like gambling; cards u dice the common form prevailingwith the middle classes. (91)259