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When the fire is burning well, the man in charge takes the old man’s pot around to the other villagers who are his [kin] and who now touch it. He then takes the guru’s pot around to [other kin], and they touch it.

• Source: Hockings, Paul. Mortuary ritual of the Badagas of southern India. Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 2001.
• Culture: Badaga
• Location: Asia