[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 260.5 # Storia do Mogor 260.5 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 260.5 - **Language:** English ### [260.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.260.5) Having set forth the way in which all the castes conduct their marriages, it remains now to speak of the blacks and pariahs, who are people of one and the same sort. These men at their weddings dress like the Brahmans do, and perform the same ceremonies, but no one can attend but those of the same caste. Now I come to funeral ceremonies for the dead ; and as all have the same practice — namely, that the wife removes her tali on the death of her husband — I shall say little, and that only briefly, about the ceremonies with which they cremate a dead body and carry out the details connected therewith. It is after these are completed that the woman must cut off her tali, and therein consists her act of widowhood ; and it is for this reason that in their language the name given to a widow means 'the woman who has cut off the tali.' - [Previous: 260.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.260.4) - [Next: 261](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.261) - [Up: 260](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.260) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.260.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.260.5) · Pramāṇa