mahua

Naxal experts say that the initial offer of the Maoists for a 72-day truce was "just to buy time" as it was during the period when tribals had to enter forests to cut fruits, 'mahua' and tobacco leaves, forcing the extremists to abandon their camps.

The Times of India 2010

Tamaksila is a place of quiet mud huts with thatched roofs, holding mahua tree hay.

The battle for Niyamgiri 2010

These men were picked up while they were collecting mahua.

Villagers say innocents were hacked, shot; cops say they were violent, Naxal ‘sympathizers’ Abhay N 2007

They either mix the poison with mahua flowers strewn on the grazing-ground, or make it into a ball with butter and insert it into the anus of the animal when the herdsman is absent.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

The Baiga dearly loves the common country liquor made from the mahua flower, and this is consumed as largely as funds will permit of at weddings, funerals and other social gatherings, and also if obtainable at other times.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Thus the Mahobia group, whose name is undoubtedly derived from the town of Mahoba, have adopted the mahua tree as their totem, and digging

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

They think that this worship and dance will cause the _karma_ tree, the mango, the jack-fruit and the mahua to bear a full crop of fruit.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Their principal deity is Bura Deo, [92] who is supposed to reside in a _saj_ tree (_Terminalia tomentosa_); he is worshipped in the month of Jeth (May), when goats, fowls, cocoanuts, and the liquor of the new mahua crop are offered to him.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

At a Binjhwar wedding an arrow is laid on the trunk of mahua [382] which forms the marriage-post, and honours are paid to it as representing the bridegroom.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

At a wedding the couple walk seven times round the sacred post, which must be of wood of the mahua [309] tree, and on its conclusion the post is taken to a river or stream and consigned to the water.

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