Storia do Mogor 257.5

257.5

The feast ended, the Brahmans rise, and carrying off the leaf from which they have eaten, throw it outside. After washing their hands and feet, they thoroughly anoint their forehead, breast, and arms, with dissolved sandal. In these matters so bad are their manners, that if anything is deficient, they give the greatest abuse to the master of the house, in the hearing of everybody. On the third and fourth days the relations of the bride and bridegroom place them upon a platform, and raising it on their shoulders, carry the pair all over the town, halting from time to time; and then the relations or other friends present them with some fruit or other eatables. This visitation over, they carry the bride and bridegroom to their swing, and begin once more to sing their praises. The next day they rub oil on the head of the bride. The girl in sport throws some of it into the eyes of the bridegroom and the other bystanders. Then the same oil with which her head has been anointed is offered up by the married pair as a sacrifice.