A History of Dancing From the Earliest Ages to Our Own Times

Gaston Vuillier

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270 A HISTORY OF DANCING Savage bulls and monstrous serpents, consecrated to the gods, wander in the precincts of these temples, within the mysterious walls of which are immured girls who never leave their prison — Devadassis and Bayaderes, chosen for their beauty to dance before the idols.
The word Devadassi (meaning a slave of the god) is derived from deva, a god, and dassi, a slave ; but a Devadassi is commonly called a Nautch, that is to say, a dancer. As for the name Bayadere, it is used o...nly by Europeans, and is of Portuguese origin.
" Any Hindoo, " says M. H. Fourment, " may devote his daughter, or his daughteis, to the service of the deity ; but, in the case of the caste of the Kai'd Koleti (or weavers), it is obligatory thus to consecrate the fifth daughter, or the youngest, should the family contain less than five girls. These Devadassis are admitted to the temple in their ninth or tenth year, when they are decorated, as a sign of their marriage to heaven, with a jewel of gold (the taly) strung on a cord of a hundred and eight strands — one for each of the hundred and eight faces of the god Roudza.

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