EDICTS OF GOA INQUISITION by the Portugese: ALL THE NATIVES OF INDIA, resident in the islands of Goa, Salsete and Bardez are hereby ordered that 1. During marriage celebration they should not use Gaitas or any other Hindu musical instruments. 2. They should not distribute viros of betel leaves and areca nuts in pubic or private. 3. They should not gift of flowers, betel nuts, fried cakes to the relatives during marriage function. 4. They should not sing songs in their language during marriage ceremonies. 5. They should not crush rice, grind condiments or flour, fry cakes or prepare other things for wedding feasts. 6. They should not anoint the bridegroom or bride with a mixture of ground saffron, milk, coconut oil, rice powder or any other things. 7. They should not bathe the bride or bridegroom in the presence of other persons. 8. They should not erect pandals with festoons of leaves at the gates of bridegroom and bride. 9. Under the bed on which the married couple sleeps, they should not place betel-nut, areca-nut and other edible things. 10. The married couple should not be conducted immediately to the place where they should sleep by any person. 11. The bride and bridegroom should not were clothes or ornaments sent from the bride?s and bridegroom?s home respectively and should were their own clothes on the marriage day. 12. Any person should not touch the couple?s head with rice on the wedding day. 13. From the day of betrothal till one month after marriage day none of the couple should visit the house of bride or bridegroom during day or night. 14. The bride should not return to her home for one month after the marriage. 15. No other relative should accompany with the bride to the bridegroom?s house after marriage. 16. The person who goes to the bridegroom?s house to offer clothes and ornament should not clothe himself in gay attire. 17. During the function of marriage they should not place in any basket any rice, beans, coconuts, betel leaves, areca-nuts or any edible things for cooking and eating on a fixed day. 18. When their sons and daughters are born they should not be received at birth or placed after they are born on raw rice. 19. On the sixth day of the birth of a child, they should not celebrate the function with banquets, public or private, or gathering of many persons at their homes. We forbid the continuation of this custom. 20. Should not coat the place in the house with cow-dung where the wives are confined. 21. The wives should not wash their bodies near any well. 22. Within the period of one year after the birth of a child, they should not take the child to the house of oldest Daiji or Gotri. 23. Should not coat the place with cow-dung at the area where some one dies in a house. 24. Should not invite poor people on feasts after the death of a person. 25. During the season of appearance of new crops they should not arrange the feasts. 26. The woman should not bathe in their clothes before entering kitchen for cooking food, in the manner which is customary among the Hindus. 27. They should not cook rice without salt, adding salt subsequently as the Hindus are accustomed to do. 28. Should not observe fast on eleventh day of the moon and full moon. 29. Should not observe as feast days on Wednesday, new moon days or full moon days. 30. Men should not wear DHOTIS and women should not were CHOLIs. 31. They should not have in their home gardens the coconut trees and Tulsi plants and they should be uprooted. 32. They should not address any Christian person by the name or surname of a Hindu. 33. During the three days known as ENTRUDO men or boys of any village should not move dancing and singing in groups from door to door. 34. They should not help attend or cooperate in any of the forbidden actions enumerated above. 35. It will be clear that any person who knew or had heard that another individual had committed any offence of which the Inquisition took cognizance, was required to apprise the Inquisition of this information within a period of thirty days and failure to do so attracted dire punishments.