50 770 H* / KILLED TIJR TIGER. 



months, seasons, day, night, and dawn. 

 Amongst the Arian Hindus, the sacrifice of a 

 horse, the Aswamed'ha, seems to have been 

 practised in their religious rites. There are two 

 hymns in the Rig- Veda describing the rite, 

 which leave no doubt that, in the early religion 

 of the race, this sacrifice, as a burnt-offering 

 to the gods, was had recourse to. It was even 

 then, however, falling into disuse, and was 

 existing as a relic on an antevedic period, 

 imported from some foreign region, possibly from 

 Scythia, where animal victims, and especially 

 horses, were commonly sacrificed. And in still 

 later times, the Aswamed'ha consisted of certain 

 ceremonies ending in the liberation of the horse, 

 as throughout Southern India is still practised 

 with a bull, freed or let loose in the name of 

 Siva or Vishnu. 



At present in India the native Arian races hold 

 to the three great religions, Buddhism, Brah- 

 manism, and Zoroastrianism, and the followers of 

 the Jain belief are all of this race, many of whom 

 also in Cashmere, Afghanistan and Rajputana 

 have become Mahommedans. Amongst the Arian 

 races who went to the North-West, there are no 

 grounds for the belief that the Saxons continued 

 to offer human sacrifices after their settlement in 

 Great Britain, but in their own land the immolation 



