 And when the king takes a wife he selects the most worthy and the most honoured of these Brahmins and makes him sleep the first night with his wife, in order that he may deflower her. Do not imagine that the Brahmin goes willingly to perform this operation....  Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society - Page 141by Hakluyt Society - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Karl Schmidt - 1881 - 454 pages
...these Brahmins and makes him sleep the first night with his wife, in Order that he may deflower her. Do not imagine that the Brahmin goes willingly to...no other person in Calicut adopts this practice." Vgl. die deutsche Ausg. Vartoman's v. J. 1534, Buch 5, Kap. 4, Von den Priestern dess Königs von Calechut... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1922 - 608 pages
...night with his wife in order that he may deflower her. But, he says, " do not imagine that the Brahman goes willingly to perform this operation ; the king...obliged to pay him four hundred or five hundred ducats." Barthema adds that the king only, and no other person in Calicut, adopts this practice ;s but other... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1922 - 622 pages
...night with his wife in order that he may deflower her. But, he says, " do not imagine that the Brahman goes willingly to perform this operation ; the king...obliged to pay him four hundred or five hundred ducats." Barthema adds that the king only, and no other person in Calicut, adopts this practice ;2 but other... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1922 - 608 pages
...operation ; the king is even obliged to pay him four hundred or five hundred ducats." Barthema adds that the king only, and no other person in Calicut, adopts this practice ;2 but other travellers give us different information. Hamilton, who lived in the East Indies in the... | |
 | S. N. Balagangadhara - 1994 - 586 pages
...these Brahmins and makes him sleep the first night with his wife, in order that he may deflower her. Do not imagine that the Brahmin goes willingly to...obliged to pay him four hundred or five hundred ducats (my italics). The editor cites two other writers to confirm that this was indeed the practice of the... | |
 | Lodovico de Varthema - 1997 - 218 pages
...these Brahmins and makes him sleep the first night with his wife, in order that he may deflower her. Do not imagine that the Brahmin goes willingly to...describe what classes [or castes] of pagans there are in Calicut. <J The first class of pagans in Calicut are called Brahmins. The second are Naeri [Nairs],... | |
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