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The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay 1924

1925

3 and 4 0 Devesi ! the offering of a red flower even if made of gold diamond or any other kind of gem is never so pleasing to the goddess Sakti as the offering of a single red lotus (Nelumbium rubra)." Then again the edible arum (Colocasia antiguorum) is one of the nine plants the worship of which forms the subject-matter of the folk-rite called the Navapatrikci or " The cult of the Nine Pla [...] In the legend which is current in village Krishnapura in the Niirlyanagalj Subdivision of the District of Moors in Eastern Bengal it is stated that the goddess Mangala Chacidi appeared in the guise of golden serpent before the hunter Kilaketu while the latter was hunting in the forests. [...] " The whole of the culture of the United States can be regarded as a unit based on maize-growing the mode of cultivation of which and the method of the pi eparation of which for food displayed remarkable skill." (p. [...] It had led to the construction of great pyramids." The several cultural elements required to draw a line of ditinction between the civilization of the Maya and of Mexico and the South and that of the post-Columbian Indiana are the same as those numbered above viz. [...] Our author attacks the problem in three lines and in treating of the first of these three lines the Terminology of Kinship speaks of the Kon.kani language as " the dialect of the Marathi " and says that though it is an Aryan language it shows " both geographically and linguistically" " evident traces of Dravidian culture." From what is known of the people of Sanskrit culture " they seem t
anthropology archaeology
Pages
166
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120155
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii unknown view
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
On the Cult of the Goddess Mangala Chandi in Eastern Bengal
103-112 Tārak Raychaudhurī, Sarat Mitra view
A Few Notes from Recent Anthropological Literature
113-131 Jivanji Modi view
The Mannans of Travancore
132-146 L. A. Iyer view
A Book-Procession of the-Tibetan Lamas as Seen at Darjeeling
146-153 Jivanji Modi view
Two Ancient Sindi Tales
153-161 Justice Kincaid view
Natural Mental Tests
161-192 Arthur Washington view
On a Recent Instance of the Khasi Custom of Offering Human Sacrifices to the Snake-Deity
192-198 Sarat Mitra view
On the Worship of Dakshina Rāya as a Rain-God
198-203 Sarat Mitra view
A Short Account of the Holi Festival
203-206 Nirmal Basu view
A Note on the Holi Festival
206-208 unknown view
“Some Ceremonies and Customs Regarding the Domestic Life of a Hindu.” Part II
208-216 K. A. Padhye view
Sâkambhari (Sâmbhar) Mentioned in Durgâ Sapta Śati
216-225 S. S. Mehta view
The Origin of Holi Holidays Traced to Rig Vedic Times
225-235 S. S. Mehta view
Anthropological Society of Bombay. Proceedings of Meetings
236-238 unknown view
The Annual Report. 1924. the Annual Report of the Council of the Anthropological Society of Bombay
238-244 unknown view

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