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'• ards, or who commit indecent and forbidden ac- 



" tions; thofewho difhonor others; all fuch will have 



" their bowels confumed by hreentering their mouths. 



" This punifhmentw'ill laft for 4,000 infernal years. 



" p^thly. Those who take any thing contrary to the 

 exprefs will of the proprietor, whether it be by 

 theft, guile, fraud, or by open violence ; thofe 

 magiftrates who receive gifts, and in confequence 

 decide caufes unjuftly; thofe officers who, after 

 having polfeffed themfelves of an enemy's country, 

 deftroy the inhabitants; thofe who deceive in fcales, 

 " weights, or meafures, or who by any other unjuft 

 " means appropriate to themfelves the goods of others; 

 " thofe who injure the property of the Rahans, or 

 " temples; all fuch, for the fpace of 8,000 infernai 

 " years, will be punifhed in the great hell Maharo- 

 " ruva by fire and fmoke, which will enter by the 

 " eyes, mouth, and other openings, and wafte away 

 " their whole bodies. 



" 6thly. Those who having killed hogs, deer, or 

 " fuch like animals, fkin them, roaft their flefh, and 

 " eat it; thofe who make arms; thofe who fell hog's 

 " flefh, or fowls, or wine, or poifon; thofe who burn 

 " towns, villages, or woods, fo that the animals liv- 

 " ing there perilh; thofe who' kill men by poifon, 

 *' arms, or incantations, or who kill animals by nets 

 " or gins; all thefe after death for fixteen thoufand 

 " years will in the great hell Tapana be tumbled 

 " down headlong from a lofty burning mountain, 

 " there being transfixed on an iron fpit, they will be 

 " cut and torn by the demons with fwords and 

 " fpears. 



" yM/y. The Deitti^ or infidels, who have been 

 " already mentioned, will in the hell Mahatapana be 

 " firft fixed with their heads downwards, and then 

 '' pierced with hot fpits as large as palm trees; 



2 " ithly. 



