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nity, Law, Phyfick, &c, and fome other Books: This 
Language is not underftood by all Braminesy but only 
by the Studious and Learned among thtm: 1 asked one 
of the moft eminent among them in this Place, how 
long it was fince the faid Language was loft, who an- 
f^/ered that it%\'as fpoke in the Age of the Gods, or when 
they lived upon Earth, which by their Calculation con- 
tinued many Thoufand Years, and ended (o many Years 
paft as we reckon irom the Flood, or thereabouts : but 
they have little Knowledge in Chronology. It's evident 
that feveral of the Languages now /poke in India, are 
derived from the Sanjcreets^ and one o^ the Bramines 
writ a Book to lliew that the prefenc Hindcftan or Lan- 
guage f[3okco by the Moors in particular, is derived 
from thence. 
I have inquir'd of Two of the rn >(l knovving Bramines 
in this Town, and they both agree, thi:t our Sunday 
in every Week was a Holy Day, or Day of Reft with 
them, and for fear they ftiould abufe me, I have asked 
zMowla or Mahometan Prieft, a Nadve of India, and 
one that always lived amongft them, and he gave me the 
fame Account. Beddes this they have their Monthly 
Holy Days ; for the Eighth Day afier the Change ot the 
Moon is always a Day of Devotion ; as alfo the Four- 
teenth and the Eleventh Days from the Change, a ftric9: 
Faft, called faka Dafee^ or Taka Dafee ; fo likewift the 
Eighth Day from the Full Moon, and the Fourteenth, 
are Days of Devotion, and the Eleventh a Taka Dafee : 
Befides thefe they have throughout the Year feveral Fe- 
ftival Days and Times, as in other Religions. 
Upon the Death of aay Perfon, the next of Kin, efpe- 
dally a Husband for a Wife, a Father for a Child, ® 
vice verfa ; as alfo a Brother for a Brother or Sifter de- 
ceafed, do Mourn Fifteen Days, during which time they 
eat only Rice and Water, and are not either to eat Betic 
or 
