The Calcutta Review, Volumes 134-435University of Calcutta, 1912 |
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... continued to be servants . With Indian rulers , too , in former days political existence was always more or less a struggle for life . Hence they would CALCUTTA REVIEW No CONTENTS ART I-THE HESSINGS, FATHER AND SON ་་ KILLAHDARS OF AGRA.
... continued to be servants . With Indian rulers , too , in former days political existence was always more or less a struggle for life . Hence they would CALCUTTA REVIEW No CONTENTS ART I-THE HESSINGS, FATHER AND SON ་་ KILLAHDARS OF AGRA.
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... existence of God . The other school derives all things from God and one sect denies the reality of matter . All the Indian systems , atheistic as well as theistic , agree in their object which is to teach the means of obtaining ...
... existence of God . The other school derives all things from God and one sect denies the reality of matter . All the Indian systems , atheistic as well as theistic , agree in their object which is to teach the means of obtaining ...
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... existence of ghosts and spooks . They believe that ghosts can assume astral forms which they call shito dama . These astral spirits are of two shapes , one being in the form of a roundish oblong tadpole , the other being eyed and more ...
... existence of ghosts and spooks . They believe that ghosts can assume astral forms which they call shito dama . These astral spirits are of two shapes , one being in the form of a roundish oblong tadpole , the other being eyed and more ...
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... existence , and even frequent occurrence , that I almost believe in them myself . Some say that there are two shapes - the roundish oblong tadpole shape , and the more square - fronted eyed shape Priests declare the shapes and sexes to ...
... existence , and even frequent occurrence , that I almost believe in them myself . Some say that there are two shapes - the roundish oblong tadpole shape , and the more square - fronted eyed shape Priests declare the shapes and sexes to ...
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... existence whereof the Japanese believe , is the " Yuki Onna " or the Snow - ghost . This belief largely prevails among the inhabitants of the higher mountains in the north of Japan , which are continually snowclad . All those persons ...
... existence whereof the Japanese believe , is the " Yuki Onna " or the Snow - ghost . This belief largely prevails among the inhabitants of the higher mountains in the north of Japan , which are continually snowclad . All those persons ...
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