The Journal of the Anthropological Society of India. New Series. March 1951

In the Iranian incantation of protecting (parhikhtan) the nails also we find that it is weeited in relation to birds (-uu)-06 Persian ty..) especially Lbird called ashzushta (.-.10-T2.5-124-0).3 (c) The incantations for the protection of hair against luence of the magic of evil-minded men are based upon at is said in the 17th Chapter of the Vendidad which cribes how the hair and nail may be [...] XIV fleas in the hair which leads to the spread of some plague) In the East and I think in the West also in ancient times the practice for the priestly class was to keep beards. [...] the Polk-lore: The custom of covering over the looking glasses in the room where the deceased is lying is quite common and finds favour even amongst some of the well-to-do." I have observed that custom in the houses of several well-to-do Parsecs. [...] It may be that the idea of worshipping the tree as a symbolical representation of Sasthi was derived from the fact that it enjoys an abnomally long life as the worship of the goddess is said to confer longevity on the baby for whom the worship is made. [...] By far the most desirable the most liquid and self-liquidating means of Investment for a banker is the hundi; my interest in the indigenous hundi system of finance therefore grew from day to day and the study of the literature on the subject has suggested to me the topic for to-day's paper."NO.