t ; 6o T.m«* foUNAJRn. T-EA"K S . 



ly in other provinces ,oe by -particular feels;.- I tannot refrain fmm addtngj-% 

 that human Jacrifices were- anciently made on .-the* Mahanavami ; andiit is de» - 

 clared in the Bhnw'Jhya Parana,, ihztr the , he-ad of a Jlpdghtered man -.gives s 

 Durga'.<j thousand times mor^ Jam fashion than ihatvf ah' ^ah%\ . 



Nar.ena ikafi vira fujita nndhimmnripa,. 



tnptd- bhawed'bbrlsam Durgd ver/bani /jcJfcamewcBdi M 

 But in the Brahma tvzxf-neram'eJha^ <cx ficrijice of a mdn 9 Is exprefsrjjry 

 forbidden j and, -in <-the> fifth book of the. Bkagawat are the. folio wing., ; 

 emphatieal words s ?< Ti tvoiha valpurufidh pirrufiameul/ena -yajanti^yafcha 

 " Jl?'iyd nrlpaJun.c'hadaTJi^ tanjcha ..tajcha ti tpafava. iha mihata, yama ■* 

 ** J&dane yatapantfa rarfliogana JiunicA iva vfudbiitind *vaddyafrtc--pivan- ■ 

 41 ///' that is, *' Whatever men in?ihis world. Sacrifice -human victims, and, 

 *• whatever women ^at the flem o£ male cattle, thofe^men and thofe wo=> 

 *.* men fhall the animals here. flam torment k the magrion of Yhma, -andi , 

 SJ like flaughtering giants having cleaved their JKmhs with'— axes* fhall : 

 ** quaff their blood;"' It may feem itrange, that -a faunmnjacrificehf a mast -* 

 fhould be no- greater crime than eating the flefli of a male beafl by. a w6man% 

 but it is held a mortal offence toklll any creature^ exeept-for facrifice, and i 

 none but males muft ever be facrdftced, nor mull Women, except after the 

 performance otafidddhci by their hufbands, tafls the'flefh even of victims. 

 Many frnnge ceremonies at the Durgotfai\a fli'Il 'fubfift ''among the Hindus . 

 both male and female, an account of which might elucidate fome very ob- 

 fcure parts of the MofaLk lawj but this is not-a pLce-fof' fuchtlifquifrt.ons." 

 The ceremony of /winging with iron hooks- through the mufcles, -on the 

 day of the Cherec, was introduced, as lam credibly' informed, in modern 

 times, by a fuperftitious prince, named Vaha, v. ho was &~Saiva of the moil 

 auftere feci; : but the cuftom is bitterly cenfured by learned 'Hindu's, and the 

 day is„ therefor^ omitted in the following abridgement of the Tit* hi tatwtu 





