devadāsī (‘ servants of the god’)
A term used to refer to a woman who was ritually ‘married’ to the temple god, or treated as one of his courtesans. Either presented to the temple by her parents in childhood, or born of a devadāsī herself, the girl (considered to be beyond ... ...
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