khamba

Their tutelary goddess is Khambeshwari, represented by a wooden peg (_khamba_).

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

There's a saying in Hindi, khisiyayi billi khamba nochay.

Kafila 2009

Earthy in her longer inventory includes all of these types and adds eight more: xihiso, a large open bowl used as a mortar or grinding-bowl xitolelo, a small mbita-type pot used for oil and ocher khamba, a large, wide-mouthed bowl used as a washbasin ndzomeya or djomela, a pot with a narrower mouth and in-turned rim for drinking beer xikalaviso, a larger-mouthed vessel used as a "goblet" galangu or kalangu, a large pot "used in distilling gin" and said to be of Tsonga origin 42 xigalangwana, a smaller version of the galangu xikutsu, a water pot named for and made to resemble a kind of gourd 43

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

i met the hijra bawas a very rare breed danced the kaif with my camera around my neck , went into a trance at char yar without any drugs..and the irony is i am able to touch the holy shrine in spite of my precarious position in life..ajmer beckons me moti katra, sola khamba i must be the only one who shots the hijras the bawas the malangs and the rafaees..

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