“Tamil:
கூத்தரிசி குத்துகிற வீட்டில் வாய்க்கு அரிசிக்கு வழி இராது.”
“English Translation:
In the house where rice is pounded for sale, there is not enough to put into the mouth of a corpse.Before a corpse is removed the females of the family place a little raw rice near the mouth, the males do the same in the cemetry before the body is laid on the pyre.”,