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# Travels in India (Tavernier) 129.2.3

Travels in India (Ball) 129.2.3

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### [129.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.tavernier~en-ball.129.2.3)

Others also throw chains of coral, others of yellow amber, others fruits and flowers. Finally, with everything which is thrown to the chief Brahmin's child he wipes the idol and makes him kiss it, and afterwards, as I have just said, returns it to the people. This idol is called Morli Ram, that is to say, the God Morli, brother of the idol on the great altar. Under the principal entrance of the pagoda one of the chief Brahmins is to be seen seated, close to whom is a large dish full of yellow pigment mixed with water.

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