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REINCARNATION
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Some writers have stated that the length of time intervening between one incarnation and another varies greatly. A very remarkable case of alleged reincarnation within a few months of decease was recently reported in the Bombay Chronicle, and is quoted in the February issue (1936) of the French Review L'Astrosophie. It concerns a little girl, eight years old, living in the village of Chirakdana near Delhi. Her name is Shanto Kumari; her father is Mr. Rang Bahadur Mathur. From the time when she first began to speak she continually talked about her former life. Her parents paid little attention to her stories, putting them down to her imagination, but an Englishman who happened to hear some report of the child's strange conversation became sufficiently interested to visit the house where she lived. He was greatly impressed with the detailed account of all that the child remembered, the more SO as her memories were those of a woman and not of a little child. She even gave him the name and address of her husband in her last life on earth. The Englishman wrote down the name in his notebook: it was Pundit Kidar Nath Chaubey, and the address was given as Mutra. He accordingly wrote to Mutra to find out if the address given was that of a place in existence, and if
