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¹ No wonder that the genius of digestion, Agastya (Wilson’s Vishṇup., iii, p. 128) shows such an overflowing health. As among the peasants in Zola’s *La terre*, and elsewhere in the world, things all go their good way amid this blessed noise as the body is thus eased, so, too, the Indian sees in it a token of food well taken and of the favour of the gods, and, in fact, of general present and future happiness. See Dubois-Beauchamp ³, p. 329 ; Schmidt, *Liebe u. Ehe in Indien*, p. 397 ; E. Thurston, *Omens*, etc. (1912), p. 26.