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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 37

An illustration from Cults, customs and superstitions of India. Rev. and enl. ed. With illus. from photographs and from drawings by William Campbell Oman, 1908, leaf 37 — excellentcondition, and apparently in vigorous health, with thecommanding presence, easy carriage, and self-possessedmanner of one accustomed to the homage of men.Round about him, in picturesque disorder, were groupsof men, women, and children, seated on the ground asclose to his feet as possible.… … YOGIS AND MAHATMAS 5 selves, were walking rapidly round the saint and thenround the fire at which their companions were seated.A diminutive tent erected under the general canopy con-tained some Hindu idols—grotesque representations oftheir gods—which two men were fanning in a listlesssort of way.…

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