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and rettirneii to Heaven. Sinierani, 

 wbitih Ibc ATantras caU the bird of the 

 good God, IS a suiall red and yellow 

 bird; ivhidilt is a ^in tokil], Tbcii by 

 hisi order, tbe jGshcs, bjidi^, pluijts hihI 

 animals descended rroiii Heavt ri tine 

 by (iiic, M',m mi\y had iijuhipiicfj, 

 and Kfiji)b Bndnl hart ercatt^d only 

 one piiir of f'ach kind of tbc ijt;tier nni^ 

 mnlrt To thin period donbtlesK, iu con- 

 ftjmiUy Tfitli otUer traditions, wg must 

 fix tbedestjeut of the first Batiii htuI of 

 his wife, who cbaFinrd ftiLb llie bfati- 

 tbij of llift river of Jcdjore fixed there 

 their resideriee. t^o, ai:ciirdin^ to 

 the MaJUraM G»d creiitcs the iirn^a- 

 iijcnt in ihe first platse, then Ra- 

 jah Bi'i^lill by bn order created all 

 thin^^ that deisend frotn on high. The 

 JVlautriis liJfe the I^f^ifays believe jit 

 good as ill bad aii|^cl?, and say that 

 each tnan is aeeoinpauied by one good 

 and uue bad atigeh They bplreve in 

 the mi»rtality uf the <iOi;I, 111 tlie eud of 

 the n'orldj 10 the hiif-l jnd^ioent, in 

 Paradise and Ht^ll, and even in a tiort 

 of Turgatory; — io the foilywiug man- 

 ner;— 



The hiiimn rare having ceased to 

 live, a great n-ind will rise aceom- 

 panicd by rain, the w»ter» will de^^- 

 etiid Willi nipidify, lightning will fill 

 the spfice all Jirouud, mid the nioun- 

 tains will sink dt^wll ; then a preat 

 heat will succeed j ihcre will ha no 

 more iii^ht and the earth whUtr 



