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Then Baya went to Chitarji's house. She waited for a roti as a payment for her work, standing in the lane outside Chitarji's house. She used to receive the rotis one by one in her odhni head cover cloth, and then put the flat round bread cakes in the big basket she carried on her head, when there were a few of them.
Chitarji was a Rajput Daroga, a group that in the feudal age were servants and concubines to the Rajput families in the village. In Chitarji's house there happened to be a Rajput boy on visit. He lived in a Rajput house next door and was of the same age as Baya. Somebody of the house handed him a roti and told him to throw it to the sweeper outside. That he did from a distance.
He threw the roti into her odhni cloth instead of handing it over in the normal way, as Baya was untouchable to him, being a high ranked Rajput. By throwing the roti to her, he escaped ritual pollution. If they would hold the roti at the same time, pollution would be transmitted from Baya through the roti to the boy, according to popular belief.