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Sanctity of grain-food.
Grain cooked with water is considered as sacred food by the Hindus.

It should be eaten only on a space within the house called _chauka_ purified with cowdung, and sometimes marked out with white quartz-powder or flour.

Before taking his meal a member of the higher castes should bathe and worship the household gods.

At the meal he should wear no sewn clothes, but only a waist-cloth made of silk or wool, and not of cotton.