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ropes ; 29, to Mrityu, (the divinity of death) a hunter ; 30, to Antaka, (the 

 divinity of murder) a person delighting in hunting with dogs j* 



31, To Sandha, (the divinity of assignation) a person given to adultery ; 



32, to Geha, (the divinity of homesteads) one who lives in concubinage ; 



33, to Mrriti, (the goddess of misfortune) one who has married before his elder 

 brother ; 34, to Arti, (the goddess of pain) one who wishes to marry before 

 his elder brother ; 35, to Aradhi, (the divinity who causes obstruction to en- 

 terprise) one who has married a widow ; 36, to Pavitra, (the divinity of purity) 

 a physician; 37, to Prajnana, (the divinity of time) an astronomer ; 38, to 

 Mskriti, (the goddess of success) the wife of a goldsmith ; 39, to Bala, (the 

 divinity of strength) a girl who is forcibly taken and kept as a concubine for 

 food and raiment, but no pay ; 40, to Varna, (the divinity of colours) one 

 who works for the sake of another, not for himself ;f 



41, To the gods of rivers, a fisherman, (Paunjishta) ; 42, to the regents 

 of lonely places, a Naishada ; 43, to the god who claims to be the noblest 

 of males, an excessively vain man ; 44, to the gods of heroes, an insane man ; 

 45, to the G-andharvas and their wives, one who has not been duly purified 

 by the initiatory rites (a Vratya) ; 46, to the regents of snakes, and snake- 

 charmers, one unfit for the initiatory rites ; 47, to the guardian gods, a 

 gambler ; 48, to Iryata, (the goddess of food) one who abstains from gamb- 

 ling ; 49, to the Pisachas, a basket-maker ; 50, to the Yatudhanas, (a race 

 of demons) a gardener, or one who puts up a thorny hedge ; % 



51, To those gods who frustrate undertakings, a hunchback ; 52, to 

 Pramada, (the divinity of excessive joy) a dwarf ; 53, to those goddesses 

 who are the guardians of gates, a diseased person ; 54, to the presiding 

 divinity of dreams, a blind man ; 55, to the divinity of sin, a deaf man ; 

 56, to the divinity of sense, one who wins her husband's affection through 

 charms or filters ; 57, to the divinity of profuse talk, a bore ; 58, to the 

 goddess who is little conversant with the Vedas, a sceptic ; 59, to her who 

 is conversant with them, one who is proficient in questioning ; 60, to her 



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