'Ippimalai's god or Kutta's Ka:i or any Chamuni Bire Kalluruti, if you have an evil eye on the child, you should leave it by drinking the blood of this cock. It is my responsibility to give the toddy, curry, etc., in the next eight days'. By saying this and by sacrificing the cock, he wards off any evil eye the goddesses may have had on the child.

The pollution created by the child birth lasts for 11 days for both Paniya and Panjiri Yeravas. On the 11 th day of the child birth the baby and the mother are given bath and in the night Paniya Yeravas conduct the pe:ruu and Panjiri Yeravas perie 'naming' ceremony. In Paniya Yeravas, the i:eka:rati names the child and in Panjiri Yeravas any woman can perform the act of naming. The same day, the mother of the child is taken to the well to perform pujas to the water and bring water in the new pot.The Panjiri Yeravas women go to the place where placenta was burried, and place some cooked rice on a banana leaf, offer puja and return.

The i:eka:rati or be:tika:rati is given an honorarium of one e:nt rice, arecanut, betal leaves, half a bottle of castor oil, one coconut and two small pieces of washing soap on the 11th day ceremony.

1.7.2 Puberty

When a girl attains puberty, she is kept inside the house and not allowed to see any men, not of the family for 15 days. The ceremonies connected with puberty are conducted after a month or two or three depending upon the finances available. The Panjiri Yeravas, on the day of the ceremony connected with the puberty, sing the first part of the :o:ba:ne pa:u, a puberty-cum-marriage song. An interesting point may be meptioned here. This o:ba:ne pa:u is a single piece of narrative legend of the birth and growth of a girl and her marriage later after puberty. This song functions as a puberty-cum-marriage ritual song in the sense that the portion of the legend upto the girl attaining puberty and a few other incidents thereafter would be sung for the puberty ceremony and the rest as marriage song. The song is sung by kanala:i.

1.7.3 Marriage

It is interesting to note that Paniya Yeravas always prefer to conduct the marriage of the girl before she attains puberty and the Panjiri Yeravas prefer to conduct the marriage after she attains puberty.