The dead are cremated. A widow accompanies the corpse of her husband to the boundary of the village, carrying a ladle and pot, which she throws down at the boundary, and returns home. On the day after the funeral, the embers are extinguished, and an effigy of the deceased is made on the spot where he was cremated, and food offered to it. Toddy is distributed among those who have assembled at the house. On the tenth day, food is offered on ten fragments of pots. On the eleventh day, if the dead man was an important personage in the community, a ceremony, corresponding to the jola jola handi of the higher castes, is performed. A cloth is spread on the ground, on the spot where the corpse was cremated, and the ground round it swept by women, whose backs are turned towards the cloth, so that they cannot see it. Two men, with swords or big knives, sit by the side of the cloth and wait till an insect settles on the cloth. They then at once put the swords or knives on the cloth, and, folding it up, place it on a new winnowing-basket. It is taken home, placed on the floor, and connected by means of a long thread with the household god (mass of clay or vessel). It is then shaken near the god, so that the insect falls out. Dandasi further occurs as a sub-division of the Kondras, the members of which have taken to the profession of village watchmen. Dandi (a staff).--A house name of Korava. Dandu (army).--A sub-division of Idiga, and an exogamous sept of Boya and Kapu. It has been suggested that the name is not Dandu but Dande, meaning pole, in reference to the apparatus used by the Idigas in climbing palm trees for the extraction of toddy. Dandu Agasa, indicating army washerman, occurs as a name for some Maratha Dhobis in Mysore, whose forefathers probably accompanied armies in times of war. Dara (stream of water).--An exogamous sept of Mala. Darabala.--Taken, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, as a sub-caste of Mala. It is a common house-name among many Telugu castes. Darala (thread).--An exogamous sept of Madiga. Darzi.--Darzi or Darji is a Muhammadan occupational term, meaning tailor. "The east," it has been said, [47] "now sews by machinery. The name of Singer is known from the Mediterranean to the Pacific. In every bazaar in India one may see men--they are always men, not women--in turban or Mussalman cap, crouching over the needle-plate, and working the pedals." The value of the imports of sewing-machines rose, in British India, from Rs. 5,91,046 in 1901-02 to Rs. 10,06,625 in 1904-05. Das.--The title of Jain immigrants from Northern India, most of whom are established as merchants, and also of the Mahants of the Tirumala (Tirupati) temple, e.g., Balaram Das, Bhagavan Das.