Adi Jambava
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Adi Jambava, reportedly also known as Padmajatiyavaru, Matangas and Begaras,[1] is a tribe and madiga[2] found in Karnataka state, India.[3] They are a low caste and are referred to as Harijans.[4][5]
They believed to be descendants of Jambavantha. This hilly mountain tribe worship Adi Parashakti, Shiva, Matangi and Maramma[1] and, as remembrance of Jambavanthas, they grow long beards and hair, wear ochre turbans, wear ashes and a horizontal shape on their foreheads known as addagandha.[6]
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- ↑ Fuchs, Stephen, t the bottom of Indian society: the Harijan and other low castes, 1981, Munshiram Manoharlal
- ↑ Memoir, Issue 18 Anthropological Survey of India, 1973, page 194
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