He can only wear a special garb.
He must never cut his hair.

His nails must be suffered to grow long.
And so on and so forth.

Such disabilities, indeed, are wont to circumscribe the life of all sacred persons, and can be matched from every part of the world.

But they may fairly be cited here, as helping to fill in the picture of what I have called the precautionary or negative type of religious ritual.
Further, there is something rotten in the state of Toda religion.

The dairymen struck Dr.Rivers as very slovenly in the performance of their duties, as well as vague and inaccurate in their accounts of what ought to be done.