Complex sentence: Sociological and ritual studies show that both Tenkalai and Vatakalai Brahmins consider the maintenance of caste purity important and continue to perform the prescribed Vedic rituals-and that those who administer initiatory rites (diksa), as well as Srivaisnava temple priests, are invariably Brahmin.
Split into simpler sentences: Sociological and ritual studies show that both Tenkalai and Vatakalai Brahmins consider the maintenance of caste purity important and continue to perform the prescribed Vedic rituals. Those who administer initiatory rites (diksa), as well as the Srivaisnava temple priests, are invariably Brahmin.