1876.] Kajendralala Mitra— On Human Sacrifices in Ancient India. 99 



91, To the mentally wrathful, a blacksmith, or one who works at a 

 forge ; 92, to the manifestly angry, one who leads a convict to execution ; 

 93, to him who presides over griefs, a groom who runs before a chariot ; 94, 

 to the two who preside over gains above and below one's expectation (JJthula 

 and Vikula), a cripple who cannot move even with the help of a crutch ; 

 95, to him who presides over expected profits, one who harnesses a horse 

 to a chariot ; 96, to him who protects gains, one who unharnesses a horse ; 

 97, to the portly-bodied, the son of one who is addicted to her toilet ; 98, to 

 him who presides over politeness, one who puts collyrium on his eyes ; 99, to 

 the divinity of sin, a maker of leather sheaths for swords ; 100, to Yama, 

 (the destroyer of life) a barren woman ;* 



101, To Yami, a mother of twins ; 102, to the goddesses who preside 

 over the mantras of the Atharva Veda, a woman who had aborted ; 103, to 

 the divinity of the first year of Jupiter's cycle, a woman who is confined long 

 after due time ; 104, to that of the second year of ditto, one who has not 

 conceived for the second time ; 105, to that of the third year of ditto, one who 

 is able to bring on delivery before due time ; 106, to that of the fourth year 

 of ditto, one who can delay delivery ; 107, to that of the fifth year of ditto, 

 one who becomes lean without delivery, 108, to one who produces a 

 misleading impression of the world, a woman who appears old in her 

 youth ; 109, to the divinity of forests, a forest-ranger or keeper ; 110, to 

 the divinity of a side forest, one who protects forests from fires ;f 



111, To the divinities of lakes, a fisherman who catches fish both in 

 water and also from the bank ; 112, to those of ponds one who catches fish 

 with hooks ; 113, to those of bays, (or streamless waters near woods,) one who 

 earns his livelihood with a net ; 114, to those female divinities who preside 

 over waters amidst prairies, one who earns his livelihood with fishing-hooks ; 

 115, to the divinity of the further bank, a Kaivarta, (or one who hunts fish 

 from the banks) ; 116, to that of the near bank, a Margara, (or one who catches 

 fish with his hands only) ; 117, to the divinities of fords, one who catches fish 

 by putting up stakes in water ; 118, to those who preside over other than 

 fords, one who earns his livelihood by catching fish with nets ; 119, to those 

 who preside over sounding waters, one who catches fish by poisoning them 





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