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The 13 pages that link to Ritual purity, each with the reason it gives.

• SanskritizationRelated: Claims to purity often underpin the status gains sought through Sanskritizing practices.

• Caste systemRelated: Ideas about purity and pollution have justified some caste rankings and restrictions.

• ExorcismRelated: Some traditions require purification of the officiant, afflicted person, or space.

• Book of LeviticusRelated: Leviticus distinguishes conditions of ritual impurity from wrongdoing.

• The Sacred and the ProfaneRelated: Purity rules specify who or what may approach sacred settings.

• CasteRelated: Ideas of purity and pollution have been used to justify caste-based social distance.

• Religious ritualRelated: Purity requirements regulate who may perform or approach certain ritual acts.

• UntouchabilityRelated: Ideas of purity and pollution have been used to justify restrictions on contact.

• HaraeRelated: Harae aims to restore ritual purity after pollution.

• UrophagiaRelated: Urine's status as waste shapes its use and rejection across traditions.

• ChhaupadiRelated: Ideas of impurity during menstruation are often invoked to justify chhaupadi.

• Vegetarianism and religionRelated: Some traditions connect food restrictions with bodily or ritual purity, though not always with vegetarianism.