On the following two days the couple throw flowers at each other for some time in the morning and evening.

Before the marriage the bridegroom's toe-nails are cut by the barber as an act of purification.

This custom, Mr.Thurston [422] states, corresponds among the Sudras to the shaving of the head among the Brahmans.

The Bestas usually take as their principal deity the nearest large river and call it by the generic term of Ganga.

On the fifth day after a death they offer cooked food, water and sesamum to the crows, in whose bodies the souls of the dead are believed to reside.