Four ritual rice-seed panicles.
The panicles are taken by the village agricultural head, haldot, or his wife, and placed in a seedbed, pannapna', in a ritual pond field, tona', early on the morning of the first day of the main-crop rice seed planting season, patang 2a. This ritual is to test, by omen, bumāun, whether or not the time is right for planting rice seeds. If no negative omen is received, that day is proclaimed a taboo day, ngīlin, in which work is not allowed in the pond fields. The following day the agricultural head completes the planting of his or her seedbed, putting additional panicles beside those already planted, delloh 3. The day following this, general planting of seedbeds begins, patang 2b.