Note 72 — Chapter V · WORSHIP OF THE MALEVOLENT DEAD.
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Those who meet a sudden or violent death, e. g., by being crushed under a falling house, by drowning in a well, by an accidental fall, by a snake bite, etc. enter the order of bhuts, pretas, pishāchas, etc., and are said to have gone to durgati or to a bad path.72