Note 5 — Chapter IV · WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS AND SAINTS.
Reading edition
On Āsho Vad fourteenth, that is, the fourteenth of the dark half of Āsho, it is customary to apply red lead to the pillars erected in honour of men that die heroic or noble deaths on fields of battle, to break cocoanuts before them, to light lamps fed with ghi and to offer cooked food to their spirits.5