Interesting Historical Events, Relative to the Provinces of Bengal, and the Empire of Indostan: With a Seasonable Hint and Perswasive to the Honorable the Court of Directors of the East India Company. As Also the Mythology and Cosmogony, Fasts and Festivals of the Gentoo's, Followers of the Shastah. And a Dissertation on the Metempsychosis, Commonly, Though Erroneously, Called the Pythagorean Doctrine, Volume 2T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1767 - Hinduism |
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... readers to be foreign to our fubject , but in the end we hope it will appear otherwise ; when they find that these authors have ( either from their own fertile inventions , or from mif - information , or rather from want of a competent ...
... readers to be foreign to our fubject , but in the end we hope it will appear otherwise ; when they find that these authors have ( either from their own fertile inventions , or from mif - information , or rather from want of a competent ...
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... reading , and expounding it , " from the Sanferit character ; to these may " be added a few others of the tribe " of Batteezaaz Bramins , who can read " and expound from the Chatah Bhade , " which ftill preferved the text of the ori ...
... reading , and expounding it , " from the Sanferit character ; to these may " be added a few others of the tribe " of Batteezaaz Bramins , who can read " and expound from the Chatah Bhade , " which ftill preferved the text of the ori ...
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... followers of the Viedam . Without repofing an implicit confidence in the relations the Bramins give of the antiquity of their fcriptures ; we will with our " our readers indulgence , humbly offer a few conjectures ( 22 )
... followers of the Viedam . Without repofing an implicit confidence in the relations the Bramins give of the antiquity of their fcriptures ; we will with our " our readers indulgence , humbly offer a few conjectures ( 22 )
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... readers indulgence , humbly offer a few conjectures that have fwayed us into a belief and conclufion , that the original tenets of Bramah are most ancient ; that they are truly original , and not copied from any fyftem of theology ...
... readers indulgence , humbly offer a few conjectures that have fwayed us into a belief and conclufion , that the original tenets of Bramah are most ancient ; that they are truly original , and not copied from any fyftem of theology ...
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... reader fome Specimens of the Gentoo Mythology , and an account of their fafts and feftivals . By the fundamental doctrines and laws of the Gentoos , they cannot admit of profe- lytes or converts , to their faith or worship ; nor receive ...
... reader fome Specimens of the Gentoo Mythology , and an account of their fafts and feftivals . By the fundamental doctrines and laws of the Gentoos , they cannot admit of profe- lytes or converts , to their faith or worship ; nor receive ...
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againſt alfo angelic bands angelic faithful angelic hoft animal Aughtorrah Bhade Baldeus becauſe Beenham Bhade Shaftah Biftnoo Birmah Bramah Bramins Brum caft cauſe Chartah Bhade Chatah confequently creation Creator defcended delinquent Debtab deſtined divine doctrines Drugah eight Boboons Endeer Eternal evil facrifice faft faid fame fcriptures feaft fecond fection feems fenfe feven fhall fhalt fhould fifteen Boboons fignifies fimple firft firſt fnake fome fometimes four Jogues fpirits ftate fubfift fubject fuch fuffer Gentoo Ghoij ginal Goddeſs himſelf Indoftan inftituted Jaggernaut JATTRA Kolee Jogue laft laſt Mhurd moft Moifafoor moon mortal moſt Munnuntur Murto muſt Onderah Oupofs perfon Poojah prefent preferve probation puniſhment purgation purification Purrup Pythagoras Rajah rebellious Debtah reft reprefented Rhaaboon Rhaam Sanferit ſhall ſhe Sieb ſpace ſtate Surgo Suttee Tagoor tenets thefe themſelves theſe third age thofe thoſe thou thouſand three primary created tion tranfmigrations tribe underſtanding univerfe Viedam word worſhip
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Page 82 - A patient, useful creature, born to bear The warm and woolly fleece, that cloth'd her murderer. And daily to give down the milk she bred, "' A tribute for the grass on which she fed.
Page 83 - And in the water views perhaps the knife Uplifted, to deprive him of his life; Then broken up alive, his entrails sees Torn out, for priests t' inspect the Gods
Page 90 - Hindoo great law-giver and prophet, Bramah, his wives, inconfolable for his lofs, refolved not to furvive him, and offered themfelves voluntary victims on his funeral pile. The wives of the chief Rajahs, the firft officers of the ftate, being unwilling to have it thought that they were deficient in fidelity and affection, followed the heroic example fet them by the wives of Bramah. The Bramins, a tribe then newly...
Page 152 - Gentoos in general are as dangerous and wicked a people as any race of people in the known world, if not eminently more so, especially the common run of brahmins.
Page 95 - ... held over the flame, whilft he dropped three times fome ghee on it, which melted, and fell into the fire...
Page 82 - And plough'd with pains, thy else ungrateful field ? From his yet reeking neck to draw the yoke, That neck, with which the surly clods he broke ; And to the hatchet yield thy husbandman, , Who finish'd Autumn, and the Spring began J Nor this alone ! but Heav'n itself to bribe, We to the gods our impious acts ascribe : First recompense with death their creatures...
Page 96 - Bramins fell at her feet — after fhe had bleffed them they retired weeping— by two fteps fhe afcended the pile, and entered the arbour ; on her entrance fhe made a profound reverence at the feet of the deceafed, and advanced and feated herfelf by his head...
Page 95 - She then divested herself of her bracelets and other ornaments, and tyed them in a cloth which hung like an apron before her, and was conducted by her female relations to one corner of the pile. On the pile was an arched arbour, formed...
Page 97 - With what dignity, and undaunted a countenance, fhe fet fire to the pile the laft time, and aflumed her feat, can only be. conceived, for words cannot convey a juft idea of her. — The pile being of combuftible matters, the fupporters of the roof were prefently confumed, and it tumbled upon her.
Page 93 - Russel, and sent her word she had now nothing to live for, but recommended her children to her protection.