Even if a dog or other impure animal should enter the assembly they would not rise.

The explanation of this rule was that it would be disrespectful to Um Deo, the food-god, to interrupt the feast.

At the feast each man sits with his bare crossed knees actually touching those of the men on each side of him, to show that they are one brotherhood and one body.

If a man sat even a few inches apart from his fellows, people would say he was out of caste; and in recent times, since those out of caste have been allowed to attend the feasts, they sit a little apart in this manner.

The Gowaris fine a man who uses abusive language to a fellow-casteman at a caste feast, and also one who gets up and leaves the feast without the permission of the caste headman.