kibÄ brahma-daitya, kibÄ bhÅ«ta, kahane nÄ yÄya
darÅ›ana-mÄtre manuá¹£yera paiÅ›e sei kÄya

 kibÄ - whether; brahma-daitya - a brÄhmaṇa ghost; kibÄ - or; bhÅ«ta - an ordinary ghost; kahane nÄ yÄya - I cannot say; darÅ›ana-mÄtre - as soon as one sees; manuá¹£yera - of a man; paiÅ›e - enters; sei kÄya - that body.


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“I do not know whether the corpse I found was the ghost of a dead brÄhmaṇa or an ordinary man, but as soon as one looks upon it, the ghost enters his body.

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