purṣān Long, narrow strips of cane (nigālā). As these strips of cane are assembled, assistants raise the patient off the ground nine times and feed her parts of the offerings. In Lakṣmaṇ Kāmī and Pratap Sārkī's joint version, Jumrātam plucks out one leaf from those that he used to curse the king as he ascends each level of the underworld.