She is not bound to enter into conjugal relations with the man to whom she is thus united, and with his consent she may be consequently married to any other man in the guise of a widow.

If a bachelor takes such a girl to wife, he must first be married to a _sahara_ tree (_Streblus asper_).

When a betrothal is arranged, an elderly member of the bridegroom's family proceeds to the bride's house and asks her people three times in succession whether the betrothal is arranged, and at each reply in the affirmative ties a knot in his cloth.

He then goes home and in the bridegroom's house solemnly unties the knots over another cloth which is spread on the ground.

This cloth is then considered to contain the promises and it is wrapped up and carefully put away to keep them as if they were material objects.
_Dherha_ .-- (Brother-in-law or paternal aunt's husband.) Title of Kharia.
_Dhimar_ .-- A caste.