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THE PEOPLE
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ORNAMENTS
Male Ornaments.
An extensive wear of ornaments is no more a fashion with men., However, of the few that may still be found in use among the rich are: bhikbali, ear-ring of gold set with pearls and a pendant of emerald, used on the upper lobe of the right ear; goph and kanthi, necklaces of gold; salkadi, kudi, poci, wrist ornaments of gold; and angthyas, finger rings of solid gold with engraved seals. In the wear of the middle class or the poor may be found gold or silver balis or bhikbalis, ear-rings, a silver kade on the wrist or a dandkade on the upper arm; and a kargotd, waist-chain of silver. In the case of boys bindlyds, kadas and todas either of gold or silver are used as wristlets; karagota, sarpoli and sakhali adorn the waist, and bhikbali, mudi and dul ornament the ears; goph, tayati are used round the neck, and vale and jhanjris round the ankles. Buttons, links, studs, collar-pins, tie-pins, wrist-watches with chain straps all made of precious metals or set with precious stones are found in the use of the modern rich if not as ornaments as decorative utility articles.
Female Ornaments.
Among women the rich wear, for the head agraphul, guldbdce phul, jali, mud, nag, phirkicephul; for the ear: bugdya, balya,
kudi and dul or ear-rings of various kinds; for the nose: nath, morani, camki; for the neck: candrahar, galsari, goph, Kolhapuri sdj, mohanmal, pende, petya, putlyaci mal, sari, tanmani and
thusi; for the hand: bahgdyd of various types, bilvar, gotha, pailya and tode are used on the wrist, and vaki and bajuband on the arm; kambarpatta is perhaps the only ornament now in use for the waist; for the feet are used sakhlya and tode of silver, and for the toes: silver rings such as jodvi, pherve, gend, phule, masolya and virolya. A girl's ornaments are practically the same as that of a woman except those indicative of soubhagya, married state. Fashions in female ornaments particularly of the rich have tended to evolve during the last fifty years towards the wear of ornaments lighter, fewer and more artistically shaped than the old ones. [It will be interesting to note the gold and silver ornaments which were current in the district by the end of the last century.
They are chandrakor kevda, nag, ketak_ rakhadi, Sheshphul, mud, gonde, phulboke, kap, balia, bugdya kurdu, kanphul, kudi, lavanga, nath, mani, bindi, bijavra,' chandrasurya' mangalsutra, tik, tandlipot, thusi, kantha, pottakuni, chinchapeUa chandrahar putalyachimal, gavachimal, arparrevadiachimal, kerle, mohor, goph, bajuband, vaki, patricha-nag, modicha-vaki, patlya, got, kangnitode, bangdya, kambarpatta' tordya, gend, masolya, virolya, mangatya, koddarkadi, pochi, kanthi, pimpalpan, dasangule, jodvi, pavitrak, shirpej, and tode.]
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