They play the kettle-drum and perform dances in her honour, and were formerly classed as one of the village menials of Maratha villages, though they now work for hire.

The Garpagari, or hail-averter, is a regular village menial, his duty being to avert hail-storms from the crops, like the qalazof'ulax in ancient Greece.

The Garpagaris will accept cooked food from Kunbis and celebrate their weddings with those of the Kunbis.

The Jogis, Manbhaos, Satanis, and others, are wandering religious mendicants, who act as priests and spiritual preceptors to the lower classes of Hindus.
With the village priests may be mentioned the Mali or gardener.

The Malis now grow vegetables with irrigation or ordinary crops, but this was not apparently their original vocation.