Note 557 — Chapter I
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Some persons attribute a heavy fall of rain to the wrath of Indra, and offer ceremonious prayers to appease that god.557 In some places people engage the services of magicians to restrain the fall of rain.558 Farmers sometimes brand the rain by casting burning sparks upon it in order to stop an incessant fall.559 Vows in honour of samudra (the ocean) are also observed with the same object.553