This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...or unborn child with the caul on his head emerges a new-born and holy man, and this rite they took from the washing with sanctifying dew observed by the Northern agricultural tribes. The libations poured out to the gods of time and drunk by the priests, were made as in the ceremonial of the Brahmanas with milk, curds, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...or unborn child with the caul on his head emerges a new-born and holy man, and this rite they took from the washing with sanctifying dew observed by the Northern agricultural tribes. The libations poured out to the gods of time and drunk by the priests, were made as in the ceremonial of the Brahmanas with milk, curds, and barley mixed with the consecrated water drawn from the running streams sacred to the mother-goddess of the springs, Dhari,1 and called the Vasa-tlvari or the sharp (ttvra), that is, the active penetrating creator (yam), and into this was infused the juice pressed by the pressing-stones, or churned in the mortar from the unfermented sap of the plants they made the symbol of the national tree of life, and this explains the use of the Palasha juice, and that of the Fiaus Indica and Kusha or Dub grass, to which I have already referred. Their belief in the sanctity of water survived in the elaborate and repeated washings in holy water which accompanied and still characterises all ritualistic observances among the Jews, Parsis, and Hindus, and this belief in water as cleansing the soul from guilt was transferred by the Semites to the Greeks, who added expiating ablutions in water to the former baths of cleansing blood. It was under Semite rule that the formation of society reached a stage beyond that which divided the people into trade guilds, like those of the Kurmis, or cultivators; the Telis, or oil-pressers; the Khewuts, or fishermen; the Lohars, or workers in metal; the Tantis, or weavers, which was the work of the Kushite rulers. Trade had greatly increased wealth, and this, together with the growing conplexity of affairs arising out of a wide-spread and active commerce, led to the increase in power and numbers of the literary class of pro...
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