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piiblifhed an index of the prohibited books, and certain 

 rules, by his letters, in form of a brief. The fame Pius IV. 

 in a bull of March 24, 1,64, fays, that the index was prc- 

 fcnted to him by order of the fy'nod, that it fliould not be 

 pubhilied before it was approved by him. It was accord- 

 ingly publidied by him, with a ftrift charge that it (hould 

 be received by all, and the rules prefixed to it obferved. 

 Clement VIII. enlarged and confirmed it, together with 

 the rules, and commanded it to be publilhedin 1595. This 

 was called by the name of the Roman index. By the fourth 

 rule, the common reading of the Holy Scriptures is forbid 

 m thefe words. " Since it is plain by experience, that if 

 the facred writings are permitted every where, and without 

 difference to be read in the vulgar tongue, men, through 

 their rafiinefs, will receive more harm than good ; let the 

 bifhop or inquifitor determine, with the advice of the parifli 

 pried or confefTor, to whom to permit the reading of the 

 bible, trandatcd by Catliolic authors in the vulgar tongue, 

 according as they rtiall judge whether it be moll likely that 

 fuch reading of the fcripture may do harm, or tend to the in- 

 creafe of faith and piety. 1.61 them alfo have the fame 

 power as to all other writings. But if any, without fuch 

 leave, fhall prcfume to read or have them, without firil 

 ihewing the bible to the ordinaries, he fhall not receive the 

 abfolution of his fins. And as to allbookfellers, who fhall 

 fell the bibles tranllated into the vulgar tongue, without fuch 

 leave, or by any other method fliall publifh them, let them 

 forfeit the price of the books, and let the money be given 

 to pious ufes by the biihop ; and let them be fubjecl to other 

 punifhments ; at the pleafure of the faid bifhop, according 

 to the nature of the offence. As to regulars, they (hall not 

 read or buy them, without leave firft obtained from their 

 prelates." The tenth rule enjoins feveral rellriftive regula- 

 tions concerning the printing and publication of books. 

 Hardouin's Concil. torn. x. p. 207, &c. 



In pope Clement's catalogue is an extraordinary kind of 

 decree, that all the books of Catholic authors, wri'tten liiice 

 theyeariJTJ, which was the year immediatel). preceding 

 that in which Luther began to declaim againll indulgences, 

 ftiould be corredled ; not only by retrenching what is not 

 conformable to the doilrine of Rome, but alfo by adding 

 what may be judged proper by the correftors. 



After this, the duke of Alva procured another to be 

 printed at Antwerp in 1571, which was publifhed by 

 Francis Junius about the vear 1586. There were two others 

 publiflicd in 1584., and 1612, by the cardinals Quiroga and 

 Sandoval, and feveral others by the inquifitors and mailers 

 of the facred palace. The moft confiderable of all the in- 

 dices is. that of Anthony a Sotomayor, fuprenie prefidcnt 

 and inquifitor-gencral in the kingdom of Spain, which was 

 made for all the ftates fubjeft 10 the king of Spain, and 

 comprehends all the others. This was publiiTied, with the 

 aavice of the fupreme fenate of the general inquifition, in 

 1640, and reprinted at Geneva in 1667. To this there were 

 many rules prefixed ; and to the Geneva edition was added 

 the index of the decrees which were rr.ide by the mafter of 

 the holy palace, by virtue of his office, or by the command 

 of the holy congregation, or by the holy congregations for 

 the indices and holy office, after the before-mentioned index of 

 the council of Trent. The ruks if the former indices are 

 explained and confirmed by thefe ; and the fifth rule, which 

 enlarges the fourth of the index of Trent, prohibits not only 

 all bibles in the vulgar tongue, comprehending all except 

 thofe that are Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Chaldee, Syiijc, 

 Ethiopic, Perfic, and Arabic ; but all parts of them, either 

 printed or manufcript, with all fummaries and abridgments 



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in the vulgar language or tongue. Limborch's Hid. of thf? 

 Inquifition by Chandler, book ii. chap. 16. 



Of the operation of thefe indices, theautliors of the En- 

 cyclopedia obferve, that there has been hardly any good 

 book of piety or morality in their language which has not 

 been profcribed. Avt. Iiide.v. 



DEX of the variation and of the inequahility of curvature. 

 See V.\Ki.\TlON of curvature. 



INDGEH, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turliey, in 

 Caramania ; 12 miles S.'NV. of Kaifarieh. 



I.VDGEH Su, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natoha ; 40 

 miles S.W. of Angura. 



INDIA, an extenfive country of Afia, which v/as di- 

 vided by Ptolemy and the ancient geographers into " India 

 extra Gangcm" and " India intra Gangem,'' orthepeninfula 

 beyond the Ganges and that on thij fide of the Ganges, to 

 which the appellation of India, according to its original 

 etymology, as the country of the people called " Hindoos," 

 properly belongs. (See HindoosTan.) India on this fide 

 of the Ganges was bounded, according to Ptolemy, on the 

 W. by the Paropamifus, Arachofia, and Gedrofia ; on tlie 

 N. by mount Imaus ; on the E. by the Ganges ; and on the 

 S. and partly on the W. by the Indian fea. The gulf into 

 which the Indus difcharged itfelf was called " Canthi-Col- 

 pus," and an illand in this gulf was named " Barr.ce." The 

 wedern mouth of the Indus was denominated " Sagapa." 

 Ptolemy enumerates feven mouths of this river under this and 

 the following names ; vi-z. " Odium Sinthum, Oreum, Cha- 

 riphi, Saparages, Sabalaffa, and Lonibare." To the Ganges 

 Ptolemy affigns fi^e months, viz. thofe of " Poluia, Oftium 

 Magnum, O. Chambericuni, O. Pfeudo-domum, and Anti- 

 bole." The part of India, which was fituated towards the 

 weft, was called " Indo-Scythia." India beyond the Ganges 

 had the Ganges on tlie W., on the N. certain parts of 

 Scythia and Serica ; on the E. the country of the Sinx ; 

 and to the S. the Indian fea. This, however, is a vague name 

 for wide and various, and till of late very much unknown, 

 regions between Hindoodan and China. The territory thus 

 denominated is rich and extenfive, and includes the Birman 

 empire, and the dominions of Pegu, Siam, Laos, Cambodia, 

 Siampa, Cochincliina, Tonquin, and Malacca : which fee 

 rel'peaively. See alfo Akracak, Asam, Ava, and 

 Thibet. For an account of " Hither India," or " India 

 intra Ganges," fee Hindoo&tan and E,tji India Company. 

 For an elaborate account of the " Political Hidorv of India, 

 from the introdudion of Mr. Pitt's bill, A. D. 17S4, to the 

 prefent date," fee Mr. Malcolm's "Sketch." Lond. 181 1, 

 8vo. 



Is-DIA, Eaj}, Company, Coins, Silt, &c. See Company, 

 Coin, Silk, &c. 



India, Sigismondo d', in Biography, a mufical compofer, 

 who was born at Palermo in Sicily, and flouriflicd about the 

 year i6to. In 161 1 he publifhed at Venice two fets of 

 madrigals; and in 1627 a book of motetti, which did not 

 go down the dream of oblivion unnoticed. 



INDIAN, in a general fenfe, denotes any thing belonff- 

 ing to the Indies, Eaft or Wed. 



l^Tilxti .Irroiv root, w Botany. See Maranta. 



l.N-niAN Bay, ill Geojrraphy, a bay that hes on the W. fide 

 of Bonavida bay, in Newfoundland. 



Indian Bread, in Botany. See Ca.ssada. 



Indian Com. See Maizit. 



Indian Corn-cars, Petri/td, in Natural Hiflory. Many of 



the early writers on extraneous fofhls mention ears of Indian 



corn among their reliquia. Mr. James Parkinfon, in Jiis 



Organic Remains, vol. j. p. 450, diews, that what Emanuel 



Swedenborg 



