And the Rev. Mr. Jaeschke writes to me from Lahaul, in British Tibet: "Our
Lama (from Central Tibet) tells us that the owner of a house and the
members of his family when they die are carried through the house-door;
but if another person dies in the house his body is removed by some other
aperture, such as a window, or the smokehole in the roof, or a hole in the
wall dug expressly for the purpose. Or a wooden frame is made, fitting
into the doorway, and the body is then carried through; it being
considered that by this contrivance the evil consequences are escaped that
might ensue, were it carried through the ordinary, and, so to say,
undisguised house-door! Here, in Lahaul and the neighbouring countries,
we have not heard of such a custom."
(Duhalde, quoted by Marsden; Semedo, p. 175; Mr. Sala in N. and
Q., 2nd S. XI. 322; Lubbock, p. 500; Sonnerat I. 86; Liebrecht's
Gervasius of Tilbury, Hanover, 1856, p. 224; Mag. Asiat. II. 93.)
[1] M. Bonin visited in 1899 these caves which he calls "Grottoes of
Thousand Buddhas" (Tsien Fo tung). (La Geographie, 15th March,
1901, p. 171.) He found a stele dated 1348, bearing a Buddhist prayer
in six different scripts like the inscription at Kiu Yung Kwan. (Rev.
Hist. des Religions, 1901, p. 393.) - H. C.
CHAPTER XLI.
OF THE PROVINCE OF CAMUL.
Camul is a province which in former days was a kingdom.
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- Of the Indian
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