What is "dhaasippen"

Dhaasippen also spelled as Daasippenn is a 1943 Tamil film directed by Ellis R. Dungan and produced by Bhuvaneswai Pictures. Starring T. R. Mahalingam and M. G. Ramachandran. Music by Lalitha Venkatraman and S. Rajeswara Rao assets to the movie .The film was also had an alternate title - Jothi Malar . Interestingly the film based on a folk tale about a Devadasis dedicating her life to workship of Lord Shiva and refusing to the follow the traditional family profession of entertainment men. The film had three titles Dasi Penn, Jyothi Malar and Thumbhai Mahatmayam. Desi Penn performed fairly well at box-office.