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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1898.
104
(6) in the Grantha MS.
(a) in the Northern Recension. 104. Såntiparva (Rajadharmanusasana). 105. Apaddharma. 106. Mokshadharma. *107. Sukspraśnâbhigamana. •108. Brahmapraśnânuálsans. *109. Pridurbhávo Darvasah. 110. Samvado Mayaya. 111. Ânusasanika. 112. Svargarohanika (Bhishmasya). 113. Aśramedhika. 114. Anugitâ. 115. Åsramavisa. 116. Putradarśana. 117. Naradagamana. 118. Mausala. 119. Mahaprasthånika. 120. Svargarohanika. 121. Harivamsa :
*(a) Visbņu. *(6) Sisoścharya Vishộoh.
*(c) Karsavadha. 122. Bhavishya.
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NOTES ON THE SPIRIT BASIS OF BELIEF AND CUSTOM.
BY SIR J. M. CAMPBELL, K.C.I.E., I.C.S.
(Continued from p. 26.)
2. 'Spirit Haunts. Or spirit hatints or abodes of spirits five seem to be most popular funeral places, borders, cross roads, stones, and trees. The remaining spirit resorts are caverns, deserts and waste places, empty houses, groves, hills, hearths, house roofs, looking-glasses, river-banks and sea-shores, unclean places, and water or pot-holes in river-rocks.
• Funeral Places. - In all religious thought the hovering ghosts of the dead make the funeral ground a place where the flesh creeps.45 So Mahadev and Vetdi live in the funeral ground, and so when a Hindu exorcist or witch has to win the favour of Vetál or any other spirit he zoes at night to a burial or burning ground. In Bengal, there is a Smashậni Káli or Grave yard Mother.66 The Hindus believe that spirits haunt funeral places, cross roads and tamarind and acacia trees ;67 the Persians hold that spirits cluster at the Tower of Silence ; 89 and the Andaman Islanders believe that the place of burial is for months haunted by the spirits of the dead.co The Chinese think that epidemics are caused by spirits issuing from tombs.70 The people of Madagascar hold that ghosts haunt tombs, and the people of Guinea that every place is haunted where death happened, and among the West Coast Africans the spirit stays where the body is buried. 71
# Tylor's Primitive Culture, Vol. II. p. 90. T Balfour's Encyclopadia, Vol. V. p. 582. 69 Jour, Anthrop. Inst. Vol. VII. p. 464. 11 Spencer's Principles of Sociology, Vol. I. p. 217.
" Ward's View of the Hindus, Vol. I. p. 166.
Bleek's Vendidad, Vol. I. p. 63. To Gray's China, Vol. I. p. 326.
