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of a fawn, ofmulton, and whatever is slain in sacrifice. The brah- 

 mins of the south abhor these abominations; but the latter at least 

 is distinctly authorized by Menu, and all the ancient Srnirtis, as 

 the most bigotted are compelled to admit." 



" In the leading- traits of the doctrine of the Juneum we recoo- 

 nize the hand of a rational reformer: one part is not so favour- 

 able. The Jungum profess the exclusive worship of Siva; and 

 the appropriate emblem of that deity in iis most obscene form, 

 enclosed in a diminutive silver or copper shrine, or temple, is sus- 

 pended from the neck of every votary, as a sort of personal god; 

 and from this circumstance they are usually distinguished by the 

 name of ling-ayet, or lingevunt. They profess to consider Siva as 

 the only God; but on the subject of this mode of devotion they 

 arc not communicative, and the other sects attribute to them not 

 veiy decent mysteries. It is however a dogma of general notoriety, 

 that if a Jungum has the mischance to lose his personal God, he 

 ouffht not to survive that misfortune." 



Who can read Sir William Jones' dissertations on the mystical 

 poetry of the Persians and Hindoos without exquisite pleasure? 

 His comments are admirable; and his quotations from Barrow and 

 Neker fill the soul with ecstasy. It would be a rash attempt to 

 controvert what that elegant and experienced writer has said on 

 the absorption of the religious brahmins: from my.own knowledge 

 of those devotees on the sacred banks of the Nerbudda, I admit 

 it all. "A figurative language," that celebrated orientalist observes, 

 " in expressing the fervour of devotion, or the ardent love of 

 created spirits towards their beneficent Creator, has prevailed from 

 time immemorial in Asia; particularly among the Persian theists. 



