Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ceremonial dance connected with the ball-games of some Indian tribes.
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But let her, beginning from the seventh year till her marriage, propitiate me every month while the moon is in Krittika (the constellation of the Pleiades), with the ball-dance, for the obtaining an excellent husband; and whom she likes, to him she is to be given and let this festival be called the Ball Festival. '
Hindoo Tales Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes P. W. [Translator] Jacob
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_Kandukavati_, the princess who performed the ball-dance.
Hindoo Tales Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes P. W. [Translator] Jacob
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