FROM THE CALICA ?tJRAN. , 3Sl 



Oil occaiions of facrifices to other deities alio, 

 both the deities and victims muft be worfhipped, pre- • 

 vious to the immolation. 



The blind, the crippled, the aged, the lick, the 

 afflicted with ulcers,, the hermophradite, the imper- 

 fectly formed, the fcarred, the timid, the leprous, 

 the dwarfifh, and the perpetrator of mehd pntaca, 

 (heinous offences, fuch as flaying a Brahmen, drink- 

 ing fpirits, ftealing gold, or defiling a Ipiritual 

 teacher's bed,) one under twelve years of age, one , 

 who is impure from the death of a kinfman, &c. one 

 who is impure from the death of mehd guru, (fa- 

 ther and mother,) which impurity lafts one whole year : 

 thefe feverally are unfit fubjects for immolation, even 

 though rendered pure by facred texts. 



Let not the female, whether quadruped or bird, 

 or a woman be ever facrificed ; the facnficer of either 

 will indubitably fall into hell, where the victim of 

 cither the beafts or birds creation, are very numerous, 

 the immolation of a female is excufeable ; but this 

 rule does not hold good, as to the human fpeciea, 



Let not a beaft be offered under three months olcf., 

 or a bird who is under three paajka (forty-five days). 

 Let not a beaft or bird who is blind, deficient in a 

 limb, or ill-formed, be offered to Devi, nor one who 

 is in any refpect unfit, from the reafons which have 

 been fet forth, when fpeaking of the human race ; 

 let not animals and birds with mutilated tails, or ears. 

 or broken teeth, or horns, be prefented on anv ac- 

 count. 



Let not a Brahmen or a Chandala be facrificed ; nor 

 a prince ; nor that which has been already prefented 

 to a Brahmen, or a deity ; nor the offspring 



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