Namaste fellow Mindful Life member. Thanks for the interesting article. Upvoted. I spent some months in India when training in Vaishnavism or Krishna Bhakti at the ashram, and I have heard a different translation of the word "kumari". Wikipedia may be wrong here because the word in Sanskrit "Kumara" is the masculine form to describe a small child, as in the name of Krishna - Nandakumara, which means small son of Nanda, the father of Krishna. The femimine equivalent is "kumari", where the a is replaced with an i at the end to denote feminine. So "kumari" means small girl, not "princess". Wikipedia cannot be trusted unfortunately.

Very interesting, thanks again.