At the end of the meal, also, there is a "prOkshaNam", where water is
sprinkled around the leaf....I suppose this is a kind of
thanksgiving for
the food....since all the men I know only mutter this to themselves,
and
hardly anyone does it any more except for priests or brahmins called
home to
a feast for religious reasons, I don't know it properly....it's
always been
meaningless mumbo-jumbo to me.
I wouldn't be so dismissive, and the 'mumbo-jumbo' is a specialty of
orthodox sects such as the Madhva Brahmins.
Regards
Chetan
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