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is said to be not uncommon, and by some of the zealous Sdktas, it is scarcely 

 concealed, it is usually nothing more than a convivial party, consisting 

 of the members of a single family, or at which men only are assembled, 

 and the company are glad to eat flesh and drink spirits,* under the 



The SaMi is now purified, but if not previously initiated, she is to be further made an adept by 

 the communication of the radical Mantra, whispered thrice in her ear, when the object of the cere- 

 mony is complete. 



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The finale is what might be anticipated, but accompanied throughout with Mantras and forms 

 of meditation, suggesting notions very foreign to the scene. 



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* The zeal that is prescribed might suit some more civilized associations— 



