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-they say, that it is exactly the sixth part of these atoms, which we see mov- 
ing in the rays of the sun, when admitted into a dark room, through a 
small aperture. Its situation is above the nose inwardly, and between the 
“eyebrows. However, some place it, etther in the right thumb or in the 
‘right toe. Muselmans in Arabia suppose this germ to be the sesamoid 
bone of the first phalanx of the great toe.* 
Yama cannot inflict any punishment on the Avrextirca, unless when 
united to the Pinda-déha, for otherwise it is susceptible neither of pain, nor 
pleasure. I am told, that in the Bhagavata, it is considered as the same 
with the Linga-sarira: and others assert, that it is really the Yoga-déha of 
the Lamas in Thibet. Some schools, either reject entirely, these idle no- 
tions, or substitute others of their own, . | 
‘Crrsias mentions wild men living in the waters of the river Gaita in India, 
in some part of its course, and from the-context, ‘this was in the eastern- 
“most ‘parts of that country. Gaita is perhaps for Khatai, another namé, 
for the Brahind-putra, because it was supposed to come from the immense 
country of Khatai.~ Patuapwws in his account of the Brahmens, says, that 
“there were in the Ganges, dragons ‘seventy cubits long, besides an animal 
called Odonto, who could swallow ‘a whole elephant, and was so much 
dreaded, that no body durst cross that river, only at the time of the year, 
; shen the Brahmens visited their wives, who lived.on the other side, for, dur- 
* See French Encyclopedia, v. Albadara a magical term ia that country. 
+ Avin Aczent, Vol. 2d. p. 8, &¢ 
