Note 122 — Chapter I
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The object round which turns are taken is either the image of a god, such as of Ganpati, Mahādev or Vishnu122 or the portrait of a guru, or his footmarks engraved or impressed upon some substance, or the agni-kunda (the fire-pit),123 or the holy cow124, or some sacred tree or plant, such as the Vad (banyan tree), the Pipal (ficus religiosa),125 the Shami (prosopis spicegera), the Amba (mango tree), the Asopalava tree (Polyalthea longifolia),126 or the Tulsi (sweet basil) plant.