Transcriber's noteObvious printer errors have been silently corrected.Original spelling, hyphenation and punctuation have been kept, but variant spellings were made consistent when a predominant usage was found.Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the book.Blank pages have been skipped.Illustrations have been slightly moved so that they do not break up paragraphs while remaining close to the text they illustrate.Illustration captions have been harmonized and made consistent so that the same expressions appear both in them and in the List of Illustrations.Both “Bramha” and “Brahma” have been kept as distinct even though they probably denote the same deity.
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