He is provided with wood, ghee, barley, rice, and tillee (sesamum).

He boils the rice, barley, and sesamum in a brass vessel, throws the ghee over them when they are dressed, and eats the whole.

This is considered as a _hom_, or burnt-offering, and by eating it in that place the priest is supposed to take the whole _hutteea_ or sin upon himself, and to cleanse the family from it.

I am told that they put the milk of the mudar shrub "asclepias gigantea," into the mouth of the infant to destroy it, and cover the mouth with the faeces that first pass from, the infant's bowels.

It soon dies; and after the expiation the parents again occupy the room, and there receive the visits of their family and friends, and gossip as usual! Rajah Bukhtawar Sing tells me, that he has heard the whole process frequently described in this way by the midwives who have attended the birth.