Cults, customs and superstitions of India. Rev. and enl. ed. With illus. from photographs and from drawings by William Campbell Oman (1908)
Oman, John Campbell, 1841-1911 · London T.F. Unwin · leaf 264
canalbank, a dirty rag of a handkerchief, and on examining itfound, tied up in one corner of it, just four four-annapieces. He slipped the rag and its contents into hispocket, and thanked the gracious Devi who had beenpleased to restore to him in this way the money he hadlost at the fair. It w^as… … AT THE FAIR 203 I granted the man the leave of absence which hewanted, and told him, at the same time, I should be atthe fair myself on the morrow, an announcement hereceived with undisguised pleasure. About seven miles from Lahore, near the village ofNiaz Beg, is held annually the largest of the…
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