The Ashes of a God. Bain Francis William

Baconian, Aristotelian; an idea quite alien to that of the old hotris. By weda they meant magical knowledge, spells; which being sung or muttered had power to compel the deities: thus the Brahman who possessed the "knowledge" (in the phrase of the Brahmanas, yah ewam weda) was the master of the world.

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i. e. the dark half of the lunar month.

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There is a pun in her name, which as applied to the moon, means a store of digits, but also signifies an ocean of wiles.