FOUN'D AT MONGUEER, 12$ 



N O T E S. 



Page 123. (1) Soogot fignifies an atheift. or follower of the tenets of 

 Soogot, a philofopher, who is (aid to have flourifhed at a place called 

 Keekot, in the province of Bckar, one thoufand years after the com- 

 mencement of the Kolv jfojg, or Iron Age ; of which this is the 48825 

 year. He believed in vifible things only, or fuch as may be deduced 

 from effects the caufe of which is known ; as from fmoke the exiflence of 

 fire. He wrote many books to prove the abfurdity of the religion of the 

 Bralimans ; and fome upon aftronomy, and other fciences, all which are 

 laid to be now in being. He further held that all our actions are attended 

 by their own rewards and punifhments in this life ; and that all animals, 

 having an equal right to exigence with man, they mould not be killed 

 either for fport or food. 



(2) Pretoo was the fon of Beno, and Raajaa of a place called Beetoor, 

 rear Luchwzv. He flourifhed in the firft age of the world, and ts faid to 

 have levelled the earth ; and, having prepared it for cultivation, obliged 

 the people to live in fociety. 



(3) S°g or > tne name °f a Raajaa who lived in the fecond age at Ojoodho, 

 and is faid to have dug the rivers. 



Page 124. (1) Shaafira — book of divine ordinations. The word is 

 derived from a root fignifying to command. 



(2) Kedaar — a famous place, fituated to the north of Hindoftan, vi- 

 fited, to this day. on account of its fuppofed fan&ity. 



(3) Gokornaa — a place of religious rcfort, near Punjab. 



(4) This and a few other pafTages appear inconfifient with the princi- 

 ples of a Soogot ; to reconcile it, therefore, it fhould be remarked, that, 

 as he was ifiuing his orders to fubjeOs of a different perfuafion, it was na- 

 tural for him to ufe a language the beft calculated to ftrike them with 

 awe, and bind them to a performance of his commands. The Ptmdit, 

 by whofe affiflance this tranflation was made, when he was defired to ex- 

 plain this feeming contradiction, afked whether we did not, in our courts, 

 {wear a Mujfulman upon the Koran, and a Hindoo by the waters of the 

 Ganges, although we ourfelves had not the leaft faith in either. 



(5) Lockee — the Hindoo Goddefs of Fortune. 



Page 125. (1) Bodheejotxuo — >was the fon of Soogot. 



(?) Beendhyo— -name of the mountains on the continent near Ceylon. 



(3) Komboge — now called Cambay. 



(4) Kreeto Joog—ihe firft age of the world, fotnetimes called the 

 Suttee Joog, or age of purity. 



(5) Bolee — a famous giant of the firft age, who is fabled to have con- 

 quered earth, heaven, and hell. 



(6) Bhargob — a Brahman, who, having put to death all the princes of 

 the earth, ufurped the government of the whole. 



(7) Trcetoo Joog—\hz fecond age, or of three parts good. 



(8) Korno 



