The sprawling in the excerpt above suggests that: THE MEN ACT WITH INAPPROPRIATE EASE IN THE HOME. Literally, to sprawl means to sit down, lie down down or fall with one's hands and legs spread out in an ungainly way. Thus, sprawling as used in the passage above means that, the four men that are been discussed in the passage are sitting down with an inappropriate ease in a house [kitchen] that is not their own.
<h3><u>The rats who live in the temple are believed to be reincarnated members of Karni Mata's clan. Karni Mata was a 15th-century sage and mystic who herself was believed to be an incarnation of the Hindu goddess Durga.</u></h3>
