[742] On fête days at temples it is not uncommon to see cages full of birds hawked about among the holiday-makers, that those who feel twinges of conscience may purchase a sparrow or two and relieve themselves from anxiety by the simple means of setting them at liberty.
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[743] Bones are used in glazing porcelain, to give a higher finish.
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[744] The seven periods of seven days each which occur immediately after a death and at which the departed shade is appeased with food and offerings of various kinds.
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[745] To warm them.
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[746] When they are born again on earth.
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[747] Heart, lungs, spleen, liver, and kidneys.
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[748] Many millions of years.
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[749] The following recipe for this deadly poison is given in the well-known Chinese work Instructions to Coroners:—“Take a quantity of insects of all kinds and throw them into a vessel of any kind; cover them up, and let a year pass away before you look at them again. The insects will have killed and eaten each other, until there is only one survivor, and this one is Ku.”
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[750] He who “turns the wheel;” a chakravartti raja.
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[751] The capital city of the Infernal Regions.
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