Note 263 — Chapter I
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After an eclipse Hindus bathe, perform ablution ceremonies, and dress themselves in clean garments. The houses are cleansed by cowdunging the floors, vessels are rubbed and cleansed, and clothes are washed, in order to get rid of the pollution caused by the eclipse.263 Unwashed clothes of cotton, wool, silk or hemp, according to popular belief, do not become polluted.263 The placing of darbha grass on things which are otherwise liable to pollution is also sufficient to keep them unpolluted.264