j^Vl ,/^-;^-lilNBU RELIGION' 



y^'omthidn^cSi'^iMMvesl^ y^r on the fumul pile of Wayakak 

 Talanteg, ooeof the fovereigns of Z.<3??i'^<?/^»* 



:::=^tf fi Eaja 'Of .S/^//m^ informed me, that there was more .need to.Tei^. 

 train than encourage the women on fach occafions; and the MahamC'^ 

 dam M Balis 2i\&is fufpicious fource of information on fuch a, lubjed, 

 declared that they never knew any ini^ance of force or overperfuafion 

 H^n foch occafionss An inllance of humanity and reafoo it may be 

 prefumed not very frequent, is well worth recording* Bagus JalanteGj 

 a J>rince of Karang-affam on Bali, who died but a few months ago^, 

 dire6led on his death-bed, that neither his wives nc^r^ bis dpmeftiqs 

 fliould faerifice themfelFe's "oh'his 'furferal pilca*.. As- th© bodies. 6f the 

 dead are preferved for a great length of time after deathj.it, feen^s rea-*- 

 fonable to fuppofe that grief can have little, ihare^ in the. motives which 

 Induce^ the women to determine upon thefe facrifiees*-,. The meritori- 

 oufnefs of the facrifice ; the honor it. confers,., and: the rewards., and 

 ^iftin^ions which are thought to. await the vidims ina future /late of 

 ^xiftence,.I.was;affured by 'the Ba/£«^j were the only motives which 

 excited the women;t0;.-deftroythemCelvei on this occafionsa The Raja 

 .difcourfed with; me freely; on the fubject, and feemed to fmile at ths- 

 ■limpHcity. of .the- poor -Women|. though, I. will, not pretend.to. affirm witlit: 

 =.^ow- much- fincertiy»^ 



The Eindus oiB'di like thofe oflridi-h burn the Ibodieg of their dead,.- 



Co the treatment obferved in other refpeds, the -only circuiofiance 



■:; wbich feems to differ from the pradice of the Bindus, is the long.. 



" period which It is. euftomary to preferve the body: previous to .burriing, 



'it This is always in proportion to- the rank of the deceafed. X^-.e 



bodies ©fperfom ofthe lowed;; order, . are ufuaily preferved .. for fome ^ 



weeks ; andthofe of perfons of rank often for a period exceeding a 



* iwM, ihe piinctp;*! population of which is Mahomidan^ ,vi &i conq^^^K^ abouJ JQ j-cats a^o by a 

 piiase of ^«//|, asd is ftiU in fabjci\ioa to the Balitte/e^, 



