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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Asafetida

Britannica 11th

ASAFETIDA (asa, Lat. form of Persian o*a = mastic, and fetidus, stinking, so called in distinction to asa dtdcis, which was a drug highly esteemed among the ancients as laser cyrenaicum, 7MASAF-UD-DOWLAH— ASBESTOS and it supposed to have been a gummy exudation ...

Vol. 2, pp. 713-713 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Arya Samaj

Britannica 11th

... God the former was much more influential than the latter. Dayanand's ARYTENOID— ASAFETIDA treatment of the Vedas was peculiar, and consisted of reading into them his own beliefs and modern scientific discoveries. Thus he explains the Yajna (sacrificial cult) a ...

Vol. 2, pp. 712-713 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0
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