The ground to be avoided is described in a special manner as follows : " That which has the form of a circle, a semicircle, containing three, five, or six angles, resembling a trident or a winnow, shaped like the hinder part of a fish, or the back of... Publications - Page 18by Oriental Translation Fund - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Ram Raz, Royal Asiatic Society, London - 1834 - 64 pages
...so far as to forbid the lower class from occupying the ground suited to the higher, and vice versd, on pain of incurring the severest vengeance of heaven...bones, slimy earth, decayed woods, coals, dilapidated \vells, subterraneous pits, fragments of tiles, lime-stones, ashes, husks of corn ; and exposed to... | |
 | 1835
...ground, that which is to be avoided, is noticed as follows. " That which has the form of a circle, or a semicircle, containing three, five, or six angles,...the back of an elephant, or a turtle, or the face of the cow, and the like, situated opposite to any of the intermediate quarters, north-west and the like;... | |
 | 1835
...shaped like the hinder part of a fish, or the back of an elephant, or a turtle, or the face of the cow, and the like, situated opposite to any of the...abounding with human sculls, stones, worms, ant-hills, bones, slimy earth, decayed woods, coals, dilapidated wells, subterraneous pits, fragments of tiles,... | |
 | 1850
...raisuil above his head; and situated in a climate of moderate temperature." The ground to be avoided is, "That which has the form of a circle; a semicircle;...elephant; or a turtle, or the face of a cow, and the like. Abounding with human skulls, stones, worms, anthills, bones, slimy earth, decayed woods, dilapidated... | |
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