If she goes through the ceremony of marriage she is held to be married.

Yet the motive for infant-marriage is held to be that a girl should begin to bear children as soon as she is physically capable of doing so, and such a marriage is useless from this point of view.

Some castes who cannot afford to burn a corpse hold a lighted brand to it or kindle a little fire on the grave and consider this equivalent to cremation.

Promises are considered as concrete; among some Hindus promises are tied up in knots of cloth, and when they are discharged the knots are untied.

Mr.S.C.Roy says of the Oraons: "Contracts are even to this day generally not written but acted.