They call on Devi, saying, '_Maiji, Maiji Mata meri, kahe ko janam diya_' or 'Mother, mother, why did you bring me into the world ?' Women who have no children sometimes vow to dedicate their first-born son as a Karohla, and it is said that such children were bound to sacrifice themselves to the goddess on attaining manhood in one of three ways.

Either they went to Benares and were cut in two by a sword, or else to Badrinarayan, a shrine on the summit of the Himalayas, where they were frozen to death, or to Dhaolagiri, where they threw themselves down from a rock, and one might occasionally escape death.

Their melancholy refrain may thus be explained by the fate in store for them.

The headquaters of the order is the shrine of the Bindhyachal Devi in the Vindhyan Hills.
_Jat_ .-- A caste.

One of the thirty-six royal races of Rajputs.