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[ The pipal or Ficus religiosa, a favourite roosting-place for fiends.]
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[ India.]
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[ The ancient name of a priest by profession, meaning “praepositus” or praeses. He was the friend and counsellor of a chief, the minister of a king, and his companion in peace and war. (M. Muller’s Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 485).]
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[ Lakshmi, the Goddess of Prosperity. Raj-Lakshmi would mean the King’s Fortune, which we should call tutelary genius. Lakshichara is our “luckless,” forming, as Mr. Ward says, an extraordinary coincidence of sound and meaning in languages so different. But the derivations are very distinct.]
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[ The Monkey God.]