If a girl is not married before she is ten her family are fined and put out of caste until the fine is paid.

And if the girl has leprosy or any other disease, which prevents her from getting married, a similar penalty is imposed on the family.

Nevertheless the Dohors are considered to be impure and are not allowed to enter Hindu temples; the village barber does not shave them nor the washerman wash their clothes.

A bachelor desiring to marry a widow must first perform the ceremony with a _rui_ or cotton-tree.

But such a union is considered disgraceful; the man himself must pay a heavy fine to get back into caste, and his children are considered as partly illegitimate and must marry with the progeny of similar unions.