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Excerpt from Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, Vol. 19 That dendrophoria was an Asiatic custom is widely shown-from the early Brahminical sculp tures of the conveyance of trees of worship, the abundant legends of trees and tree worship, the introduction of floral and arborescent decorations in the temples to their gods, and the sacred ofler ings of fruits and flowers, and, not least, the adora tion shown as an Asiatic custom, when they cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way, indicating the presence of a divine person. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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