﻿OF THE HINDUS, Scc. 251 



He slioiild then feed the Bfdhiuanas, whom he lias 

 assembled, either silently distributing food among 

 them, or adding a respectful invitation to them to 

 cat. When he has given them water to rince their 

 mouths, he may consider the deceased as fed through 

 their intervention. The priests again recite the 

 gayatrt and the prayer, ' ' may the winds blow sweet, " 

 &c. and add the subjoined prayers, which should be 

 folloM^ed by the music of flagelets, lutes, drums, &c. 

 1. The embodied spirit, which hath a thousand 

 heads, a thousand eyes, a thousand feet, stands in 

 the human breast, while he totally pervades the 

 earth. 2. That being is this universe, and all that 

 has been or will be ; he is that which grows b}'' 

 nourishment, and he is the distributor of immorta- 

 lity. 3. Such is his greatness ; and therefore is he 

 the most excellent embodied spirit : the elements of 

 the universe are one portion of him ; and three por- 

 tions -of him are immortality in heaven. 4. That 

 three fold being rose aljove [this world] ; and the 

 single portion of him remained in this universe, 

 which consists of what does, and what does not, 

 taste [the reward of good and bad actions] : again 

 he pervaded tlic universe. 5. From him sprung 

 ViRAJ* ; from whom [the first] man was produced: 

 and he, being successively reproduced, peopled the 

 earth. 6. From that single portion, surnamed the 

 universal sacrifice, was the holy oblation of 

 butter and curds produced ; and this did frame all 

 cattle, wild or domestic, which are governed by in- 

 stinct. 7. From tliat universal sacrifice, were pro- 

 duced the strains of the Rich and Sdman', from him 

 the sacred metres sprufig; from him did the Yajiish 

 proceed. 8. From him were produced horses and 

 all beasts that have two rows of teeth ; from him 

 sprung co^v's ; from him proceeded goats and sheep. 

 .9. Him the Gods, the demigods named SMhya^ 



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* See translation oF Menu. Ch. l.r. S2» 



