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that for young men which is the cutting off of the prepuce. If 
we take both the injunctions as applying to young men, the force 
of ty (but) in yuva tu will be lost. In the first injunction I take 
balasyd both with lingasyd and karnayoh. Such construction is 
not uncommon in Sanskrit being supported by the logic of the 
eye-ball of the crow which is supposed to have only one eye | 
ball, which comes to each socket as occasion arises (kakaksi- 
golaka-nyaya). Whatever may be the construction, it is evident 
from the passages: quoted above that circumcision in some 
form or other was observed by the people of the Deccan. The 
use of the word‘ Daksinatyanam’ (among the Deccan people) and 
the only people who observe it. 
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