Note 231 — Chapter I
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Some persons declare the spots to be a shami tree (prosopis spicigera).231 The belief of the masses in Gujarat is said to be that the spot on the moon’s disc is the seat of an old woman, who sits spinning her wheel with a goat tethered near her.232 If the droppings of the goat were to fall on earth, departed souls would return to the earth.233