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The Journal of the Anthropological Society of India. New Series. March 1951

1951

In the Iranian incantation of protecting (parhikhtan) the nails also we find that it is weeited in relation to birds (-uu)-06 Persian ty..) especially Lbird called ashzushta (.-.10-T2.5-124-0).3 (c) The incantations for the protection of hair against luence of the magic of evil-minded men are based upon at is said in the 17th Chapter of the Vendidad which cribes how the hair and nail may be [...] XIV fleas in the hair which leads to the spread of some plague) In the East and I think in the West also in ancient times the practice for the priestly class was to keep beards. [...] the Polk-lore: The custom of covering over the looking glasses in the room where the deceased is lying is quite common and finds favour even amongst some of the well-to-do." I have observed that custom in the houses of several well-to-do Parsecs. [...] It may be that the idea of worshipping the tree as a symbolical representation of Sasthi was derived from the fact that it enjoys an abnomally long life as the worship of the goddess is said to confer longevity on the baby for whom the worship is made. [...] By far the most desirable the most liquid and self-liquidating means of Investment for a banker is the hundi; my interest in the indigenous hundi system of finance therefore grew from day to day and the study of the literature on the subject has suggested to me the topic for to-day's paper."NO.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
136
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120155
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
581-587 unknown view
Some Trees and Herbs in Rituals and Folk-Lore
588-604 Satindra Roy view
Presidential Address on the Banking Castes and Guilds of India and the Position Occupied by Them in the Economic Organisation of Society from the Earliest Times
605-636 R. P. Masani view
“Tribes and Castes of Mysore”
637-646 R. P. Enthove view
Notes on Some Mundari Legends and Customs Connected With the Origin of the Names of Ranchi and of Some of its Suburbs
647-658 Sarat Mitra view
The Study of Anthropology in the West
658-681 Jal Bulsara view
Symbols-Tiie Swastika as a Symbol in India and Elsewhere. Was There Anything Like it in Iran?
682-695 Jivanji Modi view
“History of Pre-Musalman India”
696-700 S. S. Mehta view
Backmatter
701-715 unknown view

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