ill 
Baldauf, 
Part 1. 
THE 
I D O L A T 
O F T H E 
Eaft-India 
Giving a tfue and full Account of the 
Religious Worlhip of the Indofthans, 
the Inhabitants of Cor om an del, the 
Malabar s and Ceylonefes ; with a De- 
fcription of their Idols. 
PART I. 
CHAP. I. 
The general Confent of all Nations concerning the Exijlence of God, Divers 
Seffs of the Brahmans. Their Ofinwn concerning the Creation. The Hols 
Ixora und, Quivelinga. 
Tht Exlf 
fence of a 
Ood. 
; H E Exiftence of a God or fu- 
preme Being, is fo firmly 
rooted in the Heart of Man- 
kind, that there is no Nation 
in the World but what has acknowled- 
ged the fame. What is alledged to the 
contrary by forae, of the Chilefes^ Tapu- 
jan^ Brafilians, Madagafcarians^ as alfo 
of the Inhabitants of Florida, the Cari- 
keldands, and efpecially of die C^?;'e 0/ 
Good Hope, muft rather be attributed to 
the want of Knowledg of thofc Authors, 
than real Truth. Of this I was fufficient- 
ly convinced 1666. when I tarried three 
Months at the Cape of Good Hope, where I 
found thefe Barbarians to perform their 
Religious Service in the Night time,which 
! had no Opportunity to obferve in 
1 565, when I came that way before. 
What is faid of Diagoras, theodorm^ Cy- 
renaicus, Bion, Evemerus, Lucianus, Epl- 
curus, and efpecially of Protagoras, Abde- 
rites and Socrates^ and their Denial of the 
Exiftence of God, being to be under- 
ftood only of the Plurality of Gods, 
which was always rejeded by the wifer 
fort among the Pagans ^ whence it is 
that we meet with the Titles of Ens En- 
tiiim, the Being of all Beings, Ens primum, 
the firft Being, Primus motor & vis motrix, 
the fir ft moving Caufe and Suhftance, in 
their Writings. 
This being laid down as a fundamen- 
tal Rule, we will proceed to give an ac- 
count of the Idolatry of the Pagans in- 
habiting the Coaft of Malabar and the 
Indies, on both fides of the Cape Como. 
ryn, viz- ztTutecoryn, Trevanor^Coulang^ 
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