The Easterners
“Prācyāḥ”
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Vīramitrodaya
A named school of Mīmāṃsā interpreters ('Easterners') holding that eclipse bathing applies only where the eclipse is visually perceived.
, should be performed only at a visually perceived eclipse, not by the blind, etc.
The Easterners, however, say that at a *saṅkrānti* in the part of the day proximate to the night, since the night is also excluded by the enjoined time in the form of sixteen *ghaṭikās*, etc.
The Easterners, however, from the verse of the *Devī Purāṇa*:
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The peoples of the East, whose books, legends and monuments are silent about mother-right and who are simultaneously the victims of European travel-writers' inventions.
Had it not been for the spread of printing, and men's coming out into the light of learning, and the correcting of those fabrications, it would have become fixed in the minds of the people of the West that the Easterner sets his wife to the ploughing, and that he sows qawārmā (fried meat) believing that he will reap lambs from it, and sows charcoal to reap slaves.
for it in the books of the Easterners, nor any hint of it in their legends, nor in their usages, nor in their religions, nor in anything of their remains?