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costumbres y pagodes. Nose 
comunican entre si ni tiené 
parentesco *ni alguno a de ser 
mas q p® ni tener otro 
officio!; ni com nos con 
otros. Solam® en casa de 
Bramenes, q’ se llaman Botos, 
no comen pesca ado * ni 
carne; y estos, aung’ tienen 
nq 1 
discurso de su vida tiené tditae 
las castas diuersas ceremonias, 
| Later ad adit on, 
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
(N.S., XVIII, 
and customs, and pagodes.! 
They do not communicate 
with one another or establish 
relationship by marriage ; and 
no one has to be greater than 
his father or follow any other 
the house of Bramenes may 
all eat, because they are the 
most honourable. The Bra- 
menes form the chief caste: 
they are the whitest, are well- 
formed, talented, clever, es- 
and for commerce, and indus- 
trious in makin money. 
Among the Bramenes there are 
two castes: one who eat flesh 
and fish, though not see flesh 
and por rk. These are like the 
administrators of the whole of 
the Conchan. There are other 
Bramenes, called Botos,* who 
eat neither fish nor flesh, and, 
although these have the same 
and performing all the gentile 
t others : 
est veneration by all the gen- 
tiles. They are great enemies 
of the Christians. And, albeit 
all the castes have different 
ceremonies in the course of 
1 a a, uses a 
word pagode for an idol- tec 
at or he seems to mean the idol 
itse 
2 Boto (Konkani: bhat; Sar- 
skrt; bhatta): a Hinds priest, a 
bedi rned Brahmana. . Dalgado, 
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