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74 and of the Dev's revenue and administrative establishment to preserve the belief. It will be many years before the poorer classes of the Deccan relinquish their belief in the Chinchvad Dev and deny to him the attributes and offerings which for more than two centuries they have been taught to consider as his. The Khojas in Bombay in or about 1900 refused any longer to recognize the divinity of the Aga Khan, and a great secession took place, which culminated in three murders in the streets of Bombay. But then, from the educational standpoint, the Khoja seceders in Bombay in 1900 were two centuries ahead of the village population of the Deccan.

There is a reference to the Dev of Chinchvad at pages 173, 174 of Moor's Hindu Pantheon, original edition (1810), in the words "Account of a hereditary living deity at Cichur near Poona." Moor says, "At the period of my visit to this holy person, five generations had passed away; the sixth inheritor, Gabaji-Deva, has since died." He also mentions that the Peshwa (i.e. Baji Rao II.) and other Brahmans about Poona paid great respect and adoration to the Dev. He speaks of a lengthy account of the Chinchvad Devs in the seventh volume of the Asiatic Researches.

the following notes the Editor is indebted to the courtesy of Sir James Frazer:

Mrs. J. M. Dohan, 3715I Chestnut St., Philadelphia, writes: "Yesterday my coloured maid came to me saying that she had stepped on a nail, and might she have some peroxide. Later, when I asked how her foot was, she said, 'If I had only jes remembered and put some grease on that nail and stuck it in the chimney it wouldn't have hurt me.

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