220 ON THE RELIGION' AND 



" lous, or drunken, who are difhoneft in deed, word, 

 " or thought, or who are lafcivious, will, after death, 

 " in the great hell Seinzi be torn to pieces with glow- 

 *' ing hot irons, and then expofed to intenfe cold: 

 •* alter a time their limbs will again unite, and again 

 " will they be torn afunder, and expofed to the cold: 

 " and this alteration of mifery will endure for 500 in- 

 " fernal years. 



" 2dly. Those who either by aftion orfpeech ridi- 

 " cule their proper parents, or magiftrates, or Rahans, 

 *' or old men, or the fludious of the law; thofe who 

 '' with nets or fnares entrap fifh, or other animals; 

 " all thofe will be punifhed in the great hell Chalafot 

 for 1,000 infernal years: on a bed of fire they will 

 be extended, and like fo many trunks of trees with 

 burning iron faws and hooks they will be cut into 

 eight or ten pieces. 



" ^dly. Those who kill oxen*, fwine, goats, or 

 other fuch animals; and who are by profeffion hun- 

 •' terst; warlike kings; miniflers and governors who 

 " opprefs the people; all fuch will in the great hell 

 " Sengata be ground between four burning mountains 

 " for 2,000 years. 



" 4thly. Those who do not mutually aflift their 

 " neighbours, and who on the contrary deceive and 

 *' vex them; thofe who kill animals by immerfmg 

 " them in boiling oil or water; thofe who ape drunk- 



" ards, 



* The prefent Burma monarch, who enforces religious duties with 

 confiderable rigour, in a very particular manner punKhes the death of the 

 cow kind. The Rahans, It is evident, look on the killing of all animals 

 with equal abhorrence; and it is probable, that the Brahnens have in this 

 inflance influenced the councils of the prince, and have deprived his fubjeds 

 of a moft wholefome and invigorating aliment. 



+ Ve K I so N is the only meat permitted to be fold in the markets of the 

 Burma empire, a privilege allowed to hunters, moft probably on account 

 of the Royal family. The hero Aloungbura, the deliverer of his 

 country, and father of the king, was originally a hunter. He had the 

 good fenfe not to be afhamed of his origin, and, when he firft rofe into 

 notice, alFumed the name of Moutzobo, or the hunter-captain, a name 

 which he bellowed on his favourite refidence, when his merit and fortune 

 had induced his fubjefts to call him the lord of the world. 



