1922. ] Father A. Monserrate, S.J., on Salsete, ete. 357 
dar, y como ade huir de to- 
pedir a N.S. q’ sola la ley de 
los Bramenes sea aleuantada 
y todas las otras sean extin- 
vez a de dezir aquella oracion 
ciento y ocho vezes. La lifia 
del cuello no la tiran, ni pue- 
den comer ni beber sin ella. 
acaban de aprender la ora 
cion. Est 
pedir a Dios q’ la ley de los 
X’pianos sea destruida y la de 
los Bramenes onrrada y ale- 
uantada. 
to live, and the command- 
ments which it must observe, 
and how it must shun all the 
castes, chiefly that of the 
Christians, and that they must 
not have dealings with tem, 
and must ask of Our Lord 
that the law of the Bramenes 
may alone flourish and all the 
others may be extinguished. 
With these words, they put 
around its neck the line, con- 
sisting of three ‘threads of 
white thread, and another 
line aroun its waist, in 
honour of the god Bramaa, 
Vistu, ! and Maessu,* who are 
their god, of whom they say 
- 
and each time he must say 
that prayer one hundred and 
eight times. They do not 
take off the line round their 


Ce. Delgado, LL: 10 
iva. Cf. Dalgado, 11. 1V. 
se Ajcurious spelling for ‘ Sarb- 
skrt.’—The mewhat crude de- 
scription of the prayer must be a 
reference to the Gayatri. 
