If one needed to do ablution once, I did it twice.
He is first subjected to the process of purification, which consists of an ablution with nirang (cow-urine).
Animals and birds were sacrificed and libations poured to him, and prayers were addressed to him by devotees who had purified themselves by ablution and repeated flagellation.
The Prophet went with him for the prayer without performing a new ablution.
Similarly the Brahman takes care, after ablution of a person, to wipe the cathartic water off from head to feet downwards, that the malign influence may pass out through the feet.