He sits and takes food with them, and when the meal is over he takes a grain of rice from the leaf-plate of each guest and eats it, and drinks a drop of water from his leaf-cup.

After this he cannot be readmitted to his own caste.

A new Mehtar or sweeper gives water to and takes bread from each casteman.

In Mandla a new convert to the Panka caste vacates his house and the caste _panchayat_ or committee go and live in it, in order to purify it.

He gives them a feast inside the house, while he himself stays outside.