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 275
acknowledg-ment of these offerings, which were most likely ex votos,had to be made to satisfy the w^orshij)pers; so the Brah-man on the perch handed some trifle or other to eachdonator; such trifles, flowers mostly, having presumablycome from the inner chamber where the goddess wasenthroned in… … THK AIHI/rKRKR-HIS ITXISH.MICNT IN TIIIC NEXT WORLD To face f age 2o8 AT THE FAIR 209 from the inner shrine and been sanctified by the presenceof the Devi. Observing me standing outside, a pujarlcame forward and presented me with a small basket ofsweets and a few flowers; a servant of mine in…
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