Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c48.s3.t2.5.4

c48.s3.t2.5.4

Their sons become musicians, often of considerable skill and learning, and occasionally marry into respectable castes. The daughters follow their mother. In the Telugu country, the caste is known as Bōgam or Sāni, and is widely scattered in small numbers. There is only one institution of the sort common in the Tamil region. The Kanarese Devali are mostly ascribed to a god or to temples, as in the south. Both here and in Teliṅgāna, the recruits are from the Paḷḷi, and Holeya, but on the coast, the breed is apparently from a fairer stock, like the Tīyan, or bastards of the Havik. All these dancing and singing castes have their strict rules about initiation, conduct, inheritance, and the observance of caste regulations, enforced through a caste Council, or Pancāyat, like the larger communities.