To get rid of death pollution, a Tulu Madivali (washerman caste) gives cloths to, and sprinkles water over those under pollution.
They are to repeat the Gayatri (hymn) ten times, and observe eleven days' death pollution.
The purificatory ceremony after birth or death pollution is performed by Nambudris, but at all funeral ceremonies, such as pinda, sradha, etc.
Death pollution is observed for three days, during which the caste occupation must not be engaged in.
The ceremony consists in offering food to the crows, making presents to Brahmans, and undergoing purificatory rites for the removal of death pollution.
Though they appear to observe only eleven days' death pollution, they cannot enter a temple until the expiry of sixteen days.
They are their own priests, but the Brahmans do the purification (punyaham) of house and person after birth or death pollution.
Death pollution, as among some other non-Brahmanical castes, lasts for sixteen days.
This little ceremony is performed daily until the eleventh or thirteenth day, when the period of death pollution comes to an end.
When the period of death pollution is partly in one month, and partly in another, another death in the house within the year is expected.
The sanchayanam is the first stage in the removal of death pollution, and, until it is over, all who come to the house suffer from pollution, and cannot enter their own house or partake of any food without bathing previously.
The body above the waist was not allowed to be covered, except during the period of death pollution.
In the Vizagapatam district, death pollution is said to last for three days, during which the caste occupation is not carried out.
Nambudri Brahmans officiate as priests at marriage ceremonies, sradhas, and purification at the end of birth or death pollution, which lasts only for ten days.
Death pollution is observed for seven days, during which the son abstains from salt and tamarind.
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