98 Account or a Discovery or A 
No. 6. 
Tue next manuscript to be noticed is one apparently older than any yet 
mentioned, though written in the same hand: it is on foolscap, bound in 
parchment and is much stained'and worme-eaten: there is no general title, 
but the first leaf of the French is headed, “ Du Sandia,? and the abstract 
after one of the books mentioned is ““ De Zosocht Kormo Beda, des actions 
‘* propres des Brames, refutation du sandia de midi.>>—It professes, theres 
fore; +6 be the Carmacditdam of the Yejur Véda, containing “a refutas 
‘tion of the ceremanies observed ‘in performing the Sandhya at noon. 
This work contains an’ account Of ‘all the ‘Brahminical ceremonies, as. 
prescribed in. the Smritis'arid ‘what’ the ‘author calls, the  Refutation,” of 
each; the interlocutors ‘ale, as’ in’the other’ Hzour VY dam, * Bracu,” 
who gives the detail of the several ceremonies, aad “ Cuounonro,” who: 
refutes them.—Each book or chapter, as in most of the other manuscriptsy 
is regularly divided’ into two parts, as here indicatéd’s the account of the. 
ceremonies and the refutation of them. Whe following is an extract from. 
the 33" book: °° 33 Livre, du Zosochi Kormo Bédo de la maniere de. 
‘© donner la vie aux idoles et de les animer 3?” being the commencement of 
the second part or refutation.  ‘*€; Tu viens de me. faire part des 
“* grandes. ceremonies quisert a animer ua statue et a lui donner la vies 
© tua dit dabord que les Choutres ne peuvent point faire cette ceremonie. 
** et qwils doivent appeller un. Brame pour la faire en leurs noms. Dieu 
‘* a crée les quatres castes pour pratiquer la vertu si c’est donc un act: 
“6 du vertu de faire pareille chose pour quei. en sont ils exclus 2” The. 
p Pp q 
last book, “42 livre, of this work. ends thus: “Du Zosocht Kormo 
