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मग माझा जीव तुझ्या वाटेवर वणवणेल
अन माझी हाक तुझ्या अंतरात हुरहुरेल
मी फिरेन दूरदूर तुझिया स्वप्नात चूर
तिकडे पाउल तुझे उंब-यात अडखळेल
विसरशील सर्व सर्व आपुले रोमांच पर्व
पण माझे नाव तुझ्या ओठावर हुळहुळेल
सहज कधी तू घरात लावशील सांजवात
माझेही मन तिथे ज्योतीसह थरथरेल
जेव्हा तू नाहशील, दर्पणात पाहशील
माझे आस्तित्व तुझ्या आसपास दरवळेल
जेव्हा रात्री कुशीत माझे घेशील गीत
माझे तारुण्य तुझ्या गात्रातुन गुणगुणेल
मग सुटेल मंद मंद वासंतिक पवन धुंद
माझे आयुष्य तुझ्या अंगणात टपटपेल

Then for two or three years the boy has a loincloth and the girl a bodice or robe, and after five or six, they have, at least for festive occasions a suit much the same as grown men and women. Among the poorest classes, field and town labourers, men generally wear in-doors a loincloth and blanket, out-doors a waistcloth, and blanket or head scarf, and on festive occasions a waistcloth, jacket, and fresh head scarf. The women, except that fewer of them wear the bodice and that their robes are of coarser and plainer cloth and in worse repair, dress like middle-class women. The children of the poor are later in getting clothes, and less often have complete suits. Otherwise their dress does not differ from that of middle class children.

Dress

Dress varies to some extent according to caste and creed. Except that the state servants wear a bright, [The favourite colours are red, pink, white, purple and black, and sometimes green or yellow.] tightly wound three-cornered turban of the Sindeshai or Sindia pattera, both among high and low caste Hindus the ordinary head-dress is the handkerchief. rumal, wound loosely once or twice round the head. The ordinary dress of upper class Hindus is, for the men in-doors, a waistcloth and under-jacket with or without a coat, and head scarf, rumal; out-doors a waistcloth, a waistcoat, a coat, a head scarf or turban, and a cotton shouldercloth, and Deccani shoes and sandals, vahanas. On great occasions he wears, in addition to his ordinary out-of-door clothes, a specially rich turban, and round his shoulders a woollen shawl. Upper class Hindu women wear in-doors a robe and bodice. Their ordinary out-door dress is the same, only of rich materials, and on great occasions they add a woollen shawl drawn over the head. Boys, except when very young, have a waistcloth, a coat, and a cap or turban, and girls under four have a shirt angda, a cap topi, a petticoat parkar, a bodice choli, and sometimes a robe sadi. After four years old they dress like, grown women. Among middle class Hindus, such as husbandmen and craftsmen, the man wears in-doors a loincloth, a waistcloth, and sometimes a waistcoat; out-of-doors he wears a waistcloth, a waistcoat or sleeveless smock, kanchola, with or without a head scarf, rumal, and in cold or wet weather, a blanket, kamli. On great occasions, instead of his smock, he wears a coat, angarkha, and a turban instead of the head scarf. Middle class women wear in-doors a robe, sadi, out-doors a robe with or without a bodice, and on special occasions a richer or fresher robe and bodice. Boys and girls are, for a year or two, allowed to go naked.

Cusine

The food of a rich household is for every day, rice, pulse, vegetables, pepper, [All classes are fond of red pepper and spices.] clarified butter, oil, salt, and dried fish, and once or twice a month, mutton or fowls and eggs. On special occasions they eat fried cakes of rice and udid flour, vadas ; wheaten cakes staffed with gram flour and sugar, puran-polis; and though rarely, sugared and buttered wheat balls, ladus. Brahmans, Lingayats, and Gujarat Vanis, whether Vaishnavs or Shravaks, are an exception to this, as except the Gaud Brahmans or Shenvis who eat fish, they touch no animal food. The food of a middle-class household is rice, nachni bread, curry, and vegetables, for every day, with vadas on special occasions. The every day food of a poor household is nachni bread, and occasionally rice and curry with vadas. Those who drink liquor and milk, and have not a supply of their own, buy their liquor daily from a Bhandari or Christian liquor-seller, and their milk from the milkman generally a Gavli. Except dried fish, which is usually bought in October, stores of rice, pulse, salt, and red pepper, enough to last from four to six months, are laid in during March and April. The well-to-do pay in ready money, and the poorer re-pay at harvest with twenty-five or thirty per cent interest. The supply of animal food is bought when wanted.

People

Most of the people of Sawantwadi are Malvani people as Sawantwadi falls in the Malvan region.

The total number of infirm persons was returned at 408 (males 265, females 143) or twenty-one per ten thousand of the whole population. Of these fifty-one (males thirty, females twenty-one), or two per ten thousand, were insane; twenty-nine (males' twenty, females nine), or one per ten thousand, idiots; 139 (males eighty-eight, females fifty-one), or seven per ten thousand, deaf and dumb; 120 (males seventy-three, females forty-seven), or six per ten thousand, blind; and sixty-nine (males fifty-four, females fifteen), or three per ten thousand, lepers.