Volume 1 / Part 1 — Vām-Mārgi, Bām-Mārgi, Vāma-Chari Sect.
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Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · This article is based on Professor Wilson’s Hindu Sects, M. Chevrillon’s Romantic India, and some notes collected by Munshi Kanhya Lal of thNote 2 · Dhatura alba, a plant sacred to Siva, whose seed is a powerful narcotic, and is used to poison travellers.Note 3 · They practise various magical charms by which they think they can kill their enemies. Thus fire is brought from the pyre on which a corpse hNote 4 · Wahhābi Sect.1—A puritan sect of Muhammadans. The sect was not recorded at the census, but it is probable that it has a few adherents in the