Note 230 — Chapter III · HOLY DAYS
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Several of the Hindu festivals are accompanied by prayer, fasting, bathing, and oblation. One of the minor ceremonies during the month of February is intended to “avert smallpox.” See E. W. Hopkins, The Religions of India, Boston, 1895, p. 452 n.²; H. H. Wilson, Essays and Lectures chiefly on the Religions of the Hindus, London, 1862, ii, 209 sq.