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Literally freedom from birth and death. The nearest English equivalent is “salvation.” ↩ + 

Literally a period of four months. A vow of fasting and semi-fasting during the four months of the rains. The period is a sort of long Lent. ↩ + 

A sort of fast in which the daily quantity of food is increased or diminished according as the moon waxes or wanes. ↩ + 

Saptapadi are seven steps a Hindu bride and bridegroom walk together, making at the same time promises of mutual fidelity and devotion, after which the marriage becomes irrevocable. ↩ + 

Kansar is a preparation of wheat which the pair partake of together after the completion of the ceremony. ↩ + 

Ahimsa means literally not-hurting, nonviolence. ↩ + 

Brahmacharya means literally conduct that leads one to God. Its technical meaning is self-restraint, particularly mastery over the sexual organ. ↩ + 

Eleventh day of the bright and the dark half of a lunar month. ↩ + 

Laws of Manu the Hindu lawgiver. They have the sanction of religion. ↩ + 

One who observes brahmacharya, i.e. complete self-restraint. (See note 7.) ↩ + 

“Nirbal ke bala Rama”⁠—Refrain of Surdas’ famous hymn, “He is the help of the helpless, the strength of the weak.” ↩ + 

An Indian pulse. ↩ + 

A knowing one, a seer. ↩ + 

Throne ↩ + 

The famous word in Hindu philosophy which is nearly untranslatable, but has been frequently translated in English as “delusion,” “illusion.” ↩ + 

The prayer prescribed by the Koran. ↩ + 

The Bhagavad Gita, 2‒59. ↩ + 

Duties of the four fundamental divisions of Hindu Society. ↩ + 

See third paragraph of Chapter 13. ↩ + 

I.e. waiters. ↩ + 

Regarding the use of the word “volatile,” see note “In Justice to Her Memory,” Young India, 30th June, 1927. ↩ + 

Monks. ↩ + 

A place in Porbandar State noted locally for its coarse woollen fabrics. ↩ + 

Priests. ↩ + 

Gift. ↩ + 

Worship. ↩ + 

A light Indian bedstead. ↩ + 