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THE PUBLIC WEDDING CEREMONIES
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wedding is a thing which doth attract the populace and must be known, therefore they make public pronouncement that the marriage is to be performed; and when this cometh to pass, they do it before the eyes of all the world.

A TODA TEMPLE AT UTAKAMAND IN SOUTHERN INDIA.

Accordingly, when they proceed to perform the marriage, they make, a few days before it, a pandael, that is, a shed, before the bride's door, where the marriage is to be performed. And, if it be possible, they have four pisang-trees, whereby it is known that a marriage is to be performed in such-and-such a house where this structure standeth. On the day that the

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