Banpar

Another amateur doctor, residing in the outskirts of Dacca, earned a more lasting reputation by using a vesicatory made with the root of the ‘Kálá-chítra’, and applied over the spleen. He, however, assigned much of its efficacy to a secret invocation, addressed, in the act of applying the paste, to Lakhí Náráya]na. The Hindu, moreover, relies as much on the virtues of a cup of water, over which a mantra, has been mumbled, as any Muhammadan peasant, and the water of the Ganges, water taken from a tidal river at the turn of the tide, or water in which the Gosáin has bathed, have each their crowd of admirers.