iggr "'-'HINDU' RfeLIGION' 



the R^afa ■clratik'"*tea''firepared and handecl'tb'him'byhis attendaftts; wKo 

 wevQ gsnetillj Sudras : he even werit furtHer, and did net- fcruple - 

 WTec'eil/e tlie'farne beverage handed tohim by a Chinefa' An-Europmn 

 lOT'^'accufioriiiejd''tb"- tlie unfociable prejudices of weftera /«d!/£!', on a 

 lubjefl'in- itfelf indifferent;' will be agreeably furprifed to find-an-al" 

 moil total ab fence of all prejudices on this point in the populatiocB 

 of the oriental iilands. On Bali one might' fee a Hindu, a Chintfe, a 

 homeddn, ^nd d^ Chriftidni {it at the fame board and partake .with lil 

 exception of the fame fare;' 



TH^BuddhiftsJrdmiliQ accoiiiitl r6e^i>)'edof them from the Saims^s 

 are flill lefs fcrupulous in the matter of diet than the latter, who ftated o| 

 them as a matter of reproach, that they did not hefitate to eat carriop 

 ^nd the -fle-fii of dogs. ■ . 



-. Neither the Brahmam, nor the other twice -born ..claffes oE Bali 

 wear the thread, which is their ufual badge in India j lior did I obferve 

 the life of any fedaria! marl: \^rh#ever. The want of the latter may 

 be ^afily ^t:e0iihtfed fcir ; for w'heit; nearly all are of the fame feet, diC* 

 tift6tion beddmes Cuperfluoiis, The abfence ®f the thread is certainly 

 liogutars and CalcLilated to excite fufpicion refpe^^ing the 'purity of thei^ 

 Gxtr^dion. The firil fettlers fieceffitated to intermaHjy with the natives 

 of the country, might ftill regard the injundions<)f religion fo far, as t<^ 



deny to their contaminated poUerity^ ti^e ufe of the faered badge #>f 

 their order. 



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A Brahman of Benares, one of oisr ifepoys "WKas introduced Into the 

 prefence of the Raja. Be acknowledged that. the ^^r;7^^ were -dege- 

 nerated H^Wwj ; but add^d rather Vagaelythat all ithereft? of the world 

 but his own countryman were fo too. Irneed iiardiy - obiei.\^e ihat be 

 and my Bali friends ;were rautuaily unintelligible to each other. I 



