386 INDEX. 



70. Purification of two who had lost caste, 379- Detail of their ceremo- 

 nies, iii. 76. Wonderful privileges, iii. 369. Instance of their cruelty at Poonah 

 ii. 135. Cruelty at Benares, ii. 264. Bernier's account of their wickedness, 

 iii. 4*21. 



Brahmins of Malabar, i. 373. Their bigotry and prejudice, 375. Deference shewn 

 them by all other castes, 379- 



Brahmins in the Mahratta camp, ii. 49. Their usual food, ii. 137. A brahmin din- 

 ner descr.bed, ii. 49- 



Brahmins at Dhuboy, their request concerning eating beef, ii. 309. Pride and arro- 

 gance, 310. Difference in their animal and vegetable food, 329- Allowance of 

 grain for the brahmins and deities, 421. 



Brahmins at Neriad, their sacrifice of two old women, ii. 93. 



Brahmins at Onore, their escape from Tippoo Sultaun's cruelty, iv. 169. 



Brahmin astronomy, and computation of time, i. 126. 



Brahmin geography, fanciful and absurd, i. 124. 



Brahmin religion, queries respecting some abstruse parts in their system, iii. 259- 

 Answered, 260. 



Brahmin women, beauty of those at Harasar, i. 190. 



Bramechary, a most extraordinary devotee, ii. 313. 



Braminee Kite, a useful bird in India, iii. 67- 



Brazil coast, i. 6. Natives, 8cc. i. 8. 



Bridge, over the Bisvvamintree river, iii. 272. 



Bringal, solanum, Egg plant, i. 32. 



British character, its great respectability in India, ii. 134. 



Brodera, capital of the Guicawars in Guzerat, iii. 268. Town, fortifications, and pub- 

 lic buildings, 268. Cheapness of provisions, 273. Beauty of the country in its 

 vicinity, 470. 



Buchanan, Dr. Claudius, his visit to the temple of Juggernaut, iii. 7, 8. Documents, 

 iii. 10, 1 1. His opinion of the Hindoos, iv. 309. 



Buchanan, Dr. Francis, his account of different castes in Malabar, iii. 29. Discri- 

 minating researches, iv. 309- Account of the Smartal brahmins, iv. 309. 



Budgerows, boats on the Ganges, iv. 82. 



Buffalo; wild buffalos of Malabar, i. 355. Habits of the tame buffalo, i. 355. 



Bugulas, Indian whirlwinds, called devils, i. 205. 



Bulbul, Indian nightingale, i. 50. The bird of a thousand songs, i. 50. Verses on 

 the bulbul and rose, i. 51. 



Bulls; sacred bulls in Guzerat, ii. 510. 



Bulwant Siting rajah, his manly conduct and spirited letter to Mhadajee Sindia, i<*. 19. 



Buntee, grain in Guzerat, ii. 407- 



Bunter, or buntar, Hindoos near Mangulore, i. 312. 



Butcher's island near Bombay, i. 434. 



