id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 42996 Thurston, Edgar Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 .txt text/plain 138112 7166 72 and the marriage pots are brought by a woman of the potter caste. round the dais, and they offer pongal (cooked rice) to the village that they are a class of priests who serve the non-Brahman castes. In the Census Report, 1901, Vairavi is returned as a sub-caste of seven days after death, a little rice gruel is placed at distance Brahmans, perform the final death ceremonies on the twelfth day. Madras villages, held by persons of the Paraiyan caste. The Paraiyans, like all the other right-hand castes, come under the carrying the water-pot, three times round the grave, the barber makes On the tenth day a caste feast takes place. his caste observes all the ceremonies that Brahmans do, but without of marriages and other ceremonies in his caste, Malabar Brahmans are time afterwards, the marriage ceremony takes place. hands of the Brahman priest." At the marriage ceremony of some Kapu ./cache/42996.txt ./txt/42996.txt