The barber, whose function it is to perform the purificatory rites, now removes, and retains as his perquisite, all the cloths, except the last three covering the corpse.
These three purificatory ceremonies must be performed after every birth.
A long palaver ensued in consequence of the palols demanding ten rupees to cover the expenses of the purificatory ceremonies, which, they maintained, would be necessary if I desecrated the mand by photographing it.
Those who, so to speak, go in for it are obliged to undergo preliminary purificatory ceremonies, before the great mystery can be communicated to them.
As the Pushpakas proper employ only Nambutiris for purificatory purposes, the latter freely cook food in their houses, as in those of the Muttatus.
Another purificatory ceremony is performed, after which the image is handed over to a priest at the temple, with a rupee or two.
They are divided into two exogamous classes, one of which is regarded as inferior to the other, and performs purificatory ceremonies for the caste.
The Tinda-mannan and Puliyakkodam divisions perform the purificatorysprinklings for the others.
Their punyaha, orpurificatory ceremony after pollution, is performed by Pushpakans.
The members of the highest group, Parur Svarupam, have their purificatory rites performed by Marans.
The man who has been slippered also has to undergo purificatory ceremony, but has not to stand a feast.
On the fifteenth day after death is the purificatory ceremony.
In 1906, the purificatory ceremony, or kumbabishekam, of the Sri Pasupathiswara Swami temple at Karur was performed with great pomp.
Both the beater and the person beaten have to undergo a purificatory ceremony, and pay a fine.
On the fifteenth day is the purificatory ceremony.
Sprinkling water is an essential purificatory act after the use of the broom.
Every hair of the cow is sacred, its urine is the most holy water, and its dung the most purificatory substance.
On the eleventh day, all the members of the family go through a purificatory ceremony, which consists in swallowing the panchagavya, and changing the sacred thread.
Restoration to caste necessitates a purificatory ceremony, in which cow's urine is sprinkled by the Variyan.
When the body has been cleansed with purificatory rites (performed with the aid of Vedic mantras), the owner there of come to be called a Brahmana and becomes a vessel fit for receiving knowledge of Brahma.
In Greece the pig was used in purificatory ceremonies.
The Egyptian sacrifice described by Herodotus was combined with purificatory fasting as well as beating.
To me it appears as a method of distributing the purificatory energy over the fields or vineyards.
Then the body was carried to a certain spot where all the people stood upon it as a purificatory ceremony.
We have also seen that ablutions and other purificatory ceremonies {354} are performed for the purpose of removing sins and misfortunes.
But it should be noticed that in Europe, as in Morocco, a purificatory purpose is expressly ascribed to them by the very persons by whom they are practised (see Frazer, op.
So it may be, although, in my opinion, the purificatory ceremony described by Strabo also allows of another interpretation.
The true object of fasting often appears from the fact that it is practised hand in hand with other ceremonies of a purificatory character.
M301 The purificatory or destructive effect of the fires is often alleged by the people who light them.
This is a strong argument in favour of the purificatory and against the solar theory; for the popular explanation of a popular custom is never to be rejected except for grave cause.
M306 On the whole the theory of the purificatory or destructive intention of the fire-festivals seems the more probable.
M306) On the whole, then, the theory of the purificatory virtue of the ceremonial fires appears more probable and more in accordance with the evidence than the opposing theory of their connexion with the sun.
This appears to be a sort of purificatory ceremony at marriage.
Thus all grain cooked with water is apparently looked upon as sacred or sacramental food, and it is for this reason that it can only be eaten after the purificatory rites already described.
Tylor, had the character of a purificatory rite, but it may be doubted whether this was its original form, any more than in the case of the Suovetaurilia or Pola ceremonies.
The offender is not allowed to partake of the first two meals himself, but he joins in the third, and before it begins the head of the panchayat gives him water to drink in which gold has been dipped as a purificatory rite.
They are all marked by a tendency toward elaborate organization, a sharp differentiation from the national cults, andpurificatory and other ceremonies of initiation.
In New Guinea hunters are required to abstain from certain sorts of food and to perform purificatory ceremonies.
Thus in many cases the worshiper had to be prepared by purificatory and other ceremonies, and the priest had to submit to certain rules before he could undertake the sacrifice.
Magicians must submit to purificatory restrictions, and prove their fitness by various deeds.
The purificatory power of fire was, doubtless, a fact of early observation.
No purificatory and consecrative usage has been more widespread than fasting.
The purificatory character of the rite is duly recognised by Dr.
M48 The ceremony was probably a purificatory rite designed to disarm and disable all evils that might threaten the Roman state in the course of the year.
He points out that the ancients attributed to squills a magical power of averting evil influences, and that accordingly they hung them up at the doors of their houses and made use of them inpurificatory rites.
The ceremony is associated with the common purificatory rite called tepong tawar, and with ayer tolak bala (lit.
On the whole, then, the theory of the purificatory virtue of the ceremonial fires appears more probable and more in accordance with the evidence than the opposing theory of their connexion with the sun.
Hence, on returning home, before he is readmitted to the society of his tribe and friends, he has to undergo certain purificatory ceremonies.
First, then, it is to be observed that the people who practise the fire-customs appear never to allege the solar theory in explanation of them, while on the contrary they do frequently and emphatically put forward the purificatory theory.
The Purificatory Theory of the Fire-festivals Chapter 64.
There is a third kind of virtues, which are superior to the civil and purificatory virtues, the "virtues of the soul that contemplates intelligence.
That of the purificatory virtues is to detach the soul completely from the passions.
We should specially apply ourselves to purificatory virtues believing that we can acquire them even in this life; and that possession of them leads to superior virtues.
The purificatory virtues are superior to the former, in that they free the soul from her characteristic form of evil (that is, union with lower things).
Thus the practical virtues make man virtuous; the purificatory virtues make man divine, or make of the good man, a protecting deity; the contemplative virtues deify; while the exemplary virtues make a man the parent of divinities.
While the civil virtues are the ornament of mortal life, and prepare the soul for the purificatory virtues, the latter direct the man whom they adorn to abstain from activities in which the body predominates.
Thus, in thepurificatory virtues, "prudence consists in not forming opinions in harmony with the body, but in acting by oneself, which is the work of pure thought.
Consequently the purificatory virtues may, like purification itself, be considered in two lights; they purify the soul, and they adorn the purified soul, because the object of purification is purity.
Indeed, O thou of unfading glory, the rearer should perform all the purificatoryrites with respect to such a son according to the practices of the rearer's own race and kinsmen.
Yudhishthira said, How should thepurificatory rites of such a person be performed?
These purificatory rites, after the usual period of mourning, consists in shaving and bathing and wearing new clothes.
His sire Nimi, having performed the Purificatory rites according to the ritual laid down in the ordinance, became filled with great grief, thinking continually of the loss of his son.
The sense is that one becomes a Brahmana by birth alone, without the aid of those purificatory rites that have been laid down in the scriptures.
Neither birth, nor the purificatory rites, nor learning, nor offspring, can be regarded as grounds for conferring upon one the regenerate status.
Purificatory theory of the fires of the fire-festivals, i.
Leprosy is a disease which is specially regarded as a punishment for sin, and a Hindu affected by this disease remains an outcast until he can afford to undertake a purificatory ceremony.
Part of the purificatory rite for a woman after her delivery is to bring her out at night and let her look at the stars, while her husband stands over her with a bludgeon to guard her from the assaults of demons.
One special part of the purificatory rite following childbirth is to bring the mother out and expose her to the rays of the sun.
At purificatory ceremonies a Madiga Basavi woman, called Matangi, is sent for, and cleanses the house or its inmates from pollution by sprinkling and spitting out toddy.
They commence with the punyaham, or purificatory ceremony, and the giving of presents to Brahmans.
On the seventh day, a purificatory ceremony is gone through, and a buffalo killed, with which, and the indispensable liquor, the guests are entertained.
The bath is thought to have a purificatory effect in that it removes the evil influence[19] of death.
A purificatory bath is followed by a feast in which each one recounts the minutest details of the attack.
The rumbling of thunder means a temporary discontinuance of the work, and often a purificatory ceremony, of which I can give no details, becomes necessary and delays the work.
I am inclined to think that this rite is a purificatory one, as the name of it indicates.
It is also used to scatter round the threshold and in the house after a funeral for purificatory purposes.
The Ohoharahi fines of purificatory offerings may have contributed to a system of criminal law, but they were certainly not its main source.
He points out that the ancients attributed to squills a magical power of averting evil influences, and accordingly hung them up at the doors of their houses and made use of them in purificatory rites.
Their domestic priests are Panchangi Brahmans, and these tie the tali at weddings, and perform the purificatory ceremonies on the sixteenth day after deaths.
Nambutiris are invited to perform the purificatory ceremony known as punyaha, but the consecrated water is only sprinkled over the roof of the house.
About a week after the birth, the mother, as a purificatory ceremony, is rubbed with oil and bathed.
They act as their own caste priests, but for the punyaha or purificatory ceremony and the initiation into the ashtakshara, which are necessary on special occasions, the services of Brahmans are engaged.
The purificatory rite, the eagle capture, the peace ceremonial, the ballplay, the foot race, and the battle are all described in a way that gives us a vivid picture of the old tribal life.
Hades have stains of different colours according to the different passions; and the object of the purificatory punishment is “that, these stains having been worn away, the soul may become altogether resplendent.
We shall find, further on, that this purificatory power of such Science has been distinctly heightened for us now.
This kind is already in fairly general operation, and is clearly useful in its degree and way, but it has, of course, no purificatory force at all.
The conviction as to the purificatory power of fire was no doubt, originally, the direct consequence from the Orphic belief as to the intrinsically staining and imprisoning effect of the body upon the soul.
German observation of the moon, 141 Caffre purificatory ceremonies after a battle, ii.
On this hypothesis the octennial Delphic Festival of Crowning and the octennial Theban Festival of Laurel-bearing were closely akin: in both the prominent part played by the laurel was purificatory or expiatory.
M226) This explanation of the use of a blinded ox in sacrifice is confirmed by the reasons alleged by a Caffre for the observance of a somewhat similar custom in purificatory ceremonies after a battle.
These cases favour the purificatory explanation of the fire-walk.
M135) But apart from any general notions of the purificatory virtues of fire, the kings of Lydia seem to have had a special reason for regarding death in the flames as their appropriate end.
On the pig in Greek purificatory rites, see my notes on Pausanias, ii.
Another example of the use of a winnowing-fan in what may be called a purificatory ceremony is furnished by the practice of the Chinese of Foo-Chow.
We may compare a purificatory ceremony observed by the Karens of Burma at the naming of a new-born child.
When such a pollution accidentally took place, it was expiated by the sacrifice of a pig,(264) the usual victim employed in Greek purificatory rites.
