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The Religions of India

CHAPTER II
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81.
See also Muir, OST.ii.p.

355.] [Footnote 12: Lassen, I.p.616, decided in favor of the western passes of the Hindukush.] [Footnote 13: From Kandahar in Afghanistan to a point a little west of Lahore.

In the former district, according to the Avesta, the dead are buried (an early Indian custom, not Iranian).] [Footnote 14: Geiger identifies the Vita[=g]uhaiti or Vitanghvati with the Oxus, but this is improbable.

It lies in the extreme east and forms the boundary between the true believers and the 'demon-worshippers' (Yasht, 5, 77; Geiger, _loc.

cit._ p.


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