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b. Women walk in the for efts with a Tan in one hand, and eat certain 

 vegetables in hope of beautiful children. 



Raja mdrtanda. 



See the account given by Pliny of the ' Driddicai ■ .niifletde, or .vifcum, 

 which was to be gathered, when the moon wzsjix days old, as a preferva- 

 tive from fterility. 



c. The word means ten-removing, or removing ten fins, an epithet of 

 Gangd, who effaces ten fins, how heinous foever, committed in ten previ- 

 ous births by fuch as bathe in her waters. 



Brahma-vaiverta t 



A Couplet by Sanc'ha. 



" On the tenth of Jyaijht\ha> in the bright half of the month, on the day 

 4f of Mangala, fon of the Earth, when the moon. was in Haft a, this 

 *• daughter of Jahnu burft from the rocks, and flowed over the land inha- 

 " bited by mortals : on this lunar day, therefore, (he wafhes off ten fins, 

 i( (thus have the venerable fages declared) and gives an hundred times 

 " more felicity, than could be attained by a myriad of AJwame'dhas, oxfa- 

 iS crifices of a horfe." 



id', A fail fo flricl, that even wafer rnuft not be tailed. 

 e. A feflival, I fuppofe, with the flowers of the Champaca* 



