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and is generally cut down in July-August, though it may be cut at ail GOROVĖ. In its natural state it is used for making rope-bridges; but to manufacture rope from it, the outer bark is peeled off and thrown away, and the inner coating is steeped in water and twisted wlien wet. A large creeper will produce a inaund of this fibre known as selu. Before being used, the bark is boiled and beaten with wooden mallets, which raders it soft and pliable enough for being made into rope aud twine nsed in the erection of rope-bridges, for thatching, stringing costs, and the like. These ropes, thongh strong, are not very durable, and require occueional soaking, though, if constantly kept in the wider, thog rot yuickly and altogether do not last more than cighter months. "he broad flat seod of the pod is eaten fried in claritied butter. Houker, II, p. 279."
Voigt gives the following botanical account of the plant ; " Tull Ghants. Revinex at Kandaila. Morung Mountains. Kheree Pass. Dorn-Dhoos). Konon. Filargisl, white, gradually becoming cream-
o n , Marcha and Aprii, for C. S. Leares, often a foot unch way, fin, tougl, durable, colluctul in the N. Cirears, and sold in the bazars for plats, lining bankets, covering packets, thateb who'iscs, A. Seeds eaten rus; wben ripe tasting like cushownuts. (Roxb.). Bark employed in making rope.” Hortus Subur. Lanty (lentten?, page 233.
28. All things procreal from the residua of former acts, p. 239. This is all allusion to the Yoga theory about instinct. Life being admitled : eternal and transmigration being an accepted doctrine of Che faith, it is believed that every act loaves an impression, or residuum on the held of the minel, which lies dormant until revived, and as erery work, goo, Lail or indifferent, leaves an impression, and the iampression remains, the sum of the lead to repeated actions under yirea conditions. This is the doctrine of Karma or overy work leading to a fruit, and nothing is produced which is not the fruit of a former work. C. my translation of the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, pp. 176, 178, 179
29. Even is rope 18 made by power employed in uniting munja and valdaja burk, p. 210. In the present day rope is usually made with the munja bark alone, and it is common all over Northern India. I have nowhere seen the valvaje used as a conjunct. The text probably refers to some ancient local practice. .
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