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sidered sacred, such as the Satacramam, &c, the second to the worship 
of GaneSa, considered as the Supreme Being; the third relates to the 
notion that brutes’ possess’ Knowledge (*¢ connoissance”) andare capable 
of virtue and HACE like ‘hatian’ deings, and to other points, which the 
author supposes to be connected awith the Hindu doctrine of the trans-- 
migration of souls 5 andthe fourth the mythological account of the several: 
Manus and Manwantaras. © Like the former, each dialogue is divided.into- 
iwo parts, containing the statement of the dogma and the refutation. 
“Pais manuscript contains, also, the title *¢ Chamo Béder: Chaka,” but 
it'is followed by one verse only, six blank leaves being left for this Chaka,. 
which’ seems never to-have been written. : 
« "Tie-hand .writing of this amanuseript differs from. that in. which the; 
Ezour Védam is written, but agrees, with that.of the Sdéma Védam and. 
of all the others in which the Sanscrit and French are found together. 
Lhe Sanscrit part of all these manuscripts contains many alterations and 
variations of reading»im the same hand, either. inserted. ia the margin or 
interlineds these ‘sometinies: correct, sometimes alter the sense and are 
such asjancauthor only woulds make to. an. original work. A single eX= 
ample of ‘this will perhaps be sufficient:—a line in the.“ Champ Bédo,” 
is. thus! written.in the text—S‘-pizoucho. kolochon, tioktua, becho bandon. 
‘¢ zotipsoti? (piytsha. « calasha tyectwa. yisha bhaivdam yedv’ psati) and an 
asterisk over *¢ -pizoucho,”? refers to. the word. «6. omrito,” which has the 
same meaning, in the mar ging ‘indicating “that the author intended the 
line to be read “omrito koloshon,” &¢, and thissubstitution agrees with the 
