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THE PUBLIC WEDDING CEREMONIES 267
wedding is a thing which doth attract the populace and
must be known, therefore they make public pronounce-
ment that the marriage is to be performed; and when
this cometh to pass, they do it before the eyes of all
A TODA TEMPLE AT TTTAKAMAND IN SOUTHERN INDIA.
the world. Accordingly, when they proceed to perform
the marriage, they make, a few days before it, a pan-
dael, 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
