There were also feasts of a less'Hindu' character such as the Ploughing of the Sacred Furrow, although it is also known in India. The king ploughs an annual ground-breaking furrow on the Men square (which is also where royal cremations take place), as a symbolic market to start the ploughing and sowing season.
A further three-day festival is the 'Feast of the Dead' (prachum Ben), in which the deceased are honoured and fed with balls of sticky rice (Sanskrit pinda = Khmer ben). It is held in October and is mentioned in several old inscriptions.