6. Gorjis or preceptors of the Atits, Shrāvaks and Sanyāsis have to get their heads shaved at the time of entering the order.[147]
7. All the male relatives of the deceased have to get their heads shaved on the ninth day after death.
8. Atits and Bāvās get the heads of their disciples shaved at the time of admitting them into their order.[148]
9. The preceptors of the Swāmi Nārāyan sect shave off their moustaches every time they shave their heads.[149]
10. At the time of admitting a Jain to the ascetic order of the religion, the hairs of his head are pulled out one by one until the head is completely bald.[150]
11. On the occasion of a man being readmitted to his own caste, out of which he has been expelled for some breach of caste rules, he has to shave his head and face by way of prāyaschitta or atonement.[150]
It is believed that if the head of a widow is not shaved on the tenth day after the death of her husband, his soul is not admitted to heaven, and the funeral ceremonies performed in his honour bear no fruit.[151]
The heads of such widows are shaved on the banks of the Godāvari or at Benares or at some other holy place in the neighbourhood.[152]
The spirits of the dead are represented by balls of rice flour or cooked rice, and offerings of water, cotton thread, red powder, abir (white scented powder), red lead, sandal paste, frankincense, lamps, sesamum seeds and of the leaves of the Tulsi, the tamarind, the Agathio or Agathi (Sesbania grandiflora) and the Bhangra, and the flowers and seeds of the Java, are made to them.
The ancestral spirits are also represented by chats (twisted braids of the Durva grass (Cynodon Dactylon)), and to them are offered the Suran (Elephant-foot) cooked rice, fried cakes of the flour of mag (Phaseolus mungo), rice cooked in milk, etc.[153]