Note 8 — Chapter IV · WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS AND SAINTS.

Rajputs, Bharvāds, Ahirs and Kolis set up either a pile of stones or a single stone on the boundary of their village in honour of those among them who die on battle fields. These piles or stones are called Pālios. On the Pālios are placed engraved images to represent the deceased in whose memory the Pālios are erected. Small pillars are also raised in the localities where such persons met their death. On the Kāli Chaudas or black fourteenth, that is the fourteenth day of the dark half of Āsho, the Pālios are daubed with red lead and worshipped with offerings of cocoanuts. Women who have become sati receive worship and offerings on the Hindu new year’s day.8