Phallic Miscellanies / Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India

by Hargrave Jennings

Footnotes

1. See the Indian Cyclopædia. [Return]
2. Sellon. [Return]
3. Tod’s Rajasth, vol. I., p. 515. [Return]
4. See Asiatic Researches, Vol. II. [Return]
5. Asiatic Researches, vol. I. [Return]
6. La Porte Ouverte, p. 157. [Return]
7. Vaus Kennedy, Hindu Mythology. [Return]
8. See the Mackenzie Collection, vol. 2, Halakanara MSS. [Return]
9. Picard, Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses. [Return]
10. Picard, Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses. [Return]
11. Picard, Ceremonies et Contumes Religieuses. [Return]
12. Wilson’s Lectures. [Return]
13. Religious Sects of India by H. H. Wilson. [Return]
14. See Calcutta Review for 1855. [Return]

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