Note 192 — Chapter V · Magic Rites connected with the Several Departments of Nature

“3. When the proper season has arrived for beginning the work of planting, and the elders have come to an agreement with the Pawang, then on some Friday after the service in the Mosque the Pĕnghulu addresses all the people there present, saying that on such a day of the month every one who is to take part in rice-cultivation must bring to the Mosque half a quart of grain (for ‘mother-seed’) in order that Maulud prayers may be read over it. (At that time kĕtupats192 and lĕpats193 are prepared for the men who are to read those prayers.)