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... caused by touching impure things than about crime , a great deal more about penances than about punishments . They are intended to guide the faithful Hindu of the three higher castes from birth to death , and give him full directions ...
... caused by touching impure things than about crime , a great deal more about penances than about punishments . They are intended to guide the faithful Hindu of the three higher castes from birth to death , and give him full directions ...
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... caused by the transitional character of the book which was first introduced to European scholarship as the original source of Hindu Law . If the sample of this branch of Hindu litera- ture first translated into a Western language had ...
... caused by the transitional character of the book which was first introduced to European scholarship as the original source of Hindu Law . If the sample of this branch of Hindu litera- ture first translated into a Western language had ...
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... causes . wild Turkoman , though he passes as a fanatical Mahommedan , may occasionally worship at his an- cestor's grave , as did his forefathers in the extreme East , and here and there a locally reverenced Christian saint may have ...
... causes . wild Turkoman , though he passes as a fanatical Mahommedan , may occasionally worship at his an- cestor's grave , as did his forefathers in the extreme East , and here and there a locally reverenced Christian saint may have ...
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... caused , has expired , Time snatches him away forcibly . He will not die before his time has come , even though he has been pierced by a thousand shafts ; he will not live after his time is out , though he has only been touched by a ...
... caused , has expired , Time snatches him away forcibly . He will not die before his time has come , even though he has been pierced by a thousand shafts ; he will not live after his time is out , though he has only been touched by a ...
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... Punjab Law , p . 85 . 1 Diodorus Siculus , xii . 14 ( commenting on a probably spurious law attributed to Charondas ) . it to its causes , in his sixteenth chapter . I 2 CHAP . IV . 115 ANCESTOR - WORSHIP AND INHERITANCE . 9 ...
... Punjab Law , p . 85 . 1 Diodorus Siculus , xii . 14 ( commenting on a probably spurious law attributed to Charondas ) . it to its causes , in his sixteenth chapter . I 2 CHAP . IV . 115 ANCESTOR - WORSHIP AND INHERITANCE . 9 ...
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