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anua147 -> devadasi:-> Atmavikravi( a person who sold himself) (8/26/2010 2:39:04 PM)
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The word devadasi or mahari means "those great women who can control natural human impulses, their five senses and can submit themselves completely to God. The devadasis were forced into a life of poverty, misery, and, in some cases, prostitution.After dedication of a girl, she has to take bath every day early in the morning and should present herself for morning worship. The main functions of Devadasis would be singing and playing stringed musical instruments.The slave women who cooked his food and entertained him with dancing and music ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"The female slave , knowing herself owned, is usually in little doubt as to what can occur to her in her slavery. " Slaves are mostly domestic servants or personal attendants. The slave was a subordinate member of her master’s family. Her maintenance was the pious and sacred duty of her master. He have no rights over the lives of the slave. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rules and regulations were strictly followed to maintain this supremacy. They were based on (i) removing the cloth if any covering the shoulders and the head, (ii) using in conversation self denouncing form of speech with special standardised servile expressions and (iii) asserting bodily poses which have been culturally standardised.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For this slave squirming is inevitable unless it has been bound, and within minutes, this slave is usually begging for mercy and promising good future behavior. Fortunately, Master does not give in to these initial pleas. When this slave finds out it will be punished or disciplined with the root, it expects thirty to forty-five minutes of discomfort. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dream for a slave -> In Ajax by Sophocles, line 487 Tecmessa states: "I was the daughter of a free-born father mighty in wealth, if any Phrygian was. Now I am a slave, for somehow the gods so ordained, [490] and even more so did your strong hand. Therefore, since I have come into your bed, I wish you well, and I do beg you, by the Zeus of our hearth, by your marriage-bed in which you coupled with me, do not condemn me to the cruel talk [495] of your enemies, do not leave me to the hand of a stranger! On whatever day you die and widow me by your death, on that same day, be sure, I shall also be seized forcibly by the Greeks and, with your son, shall obtain a slave's portion. [500] Then one of my masters will name me bitterly, shooting me with taunts: ' See the concubine of Ajax, who was the mightiest man in the army. See what menial tasks she tends to, in place of such an enviable existence
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