lilTSi DOOS. 
AfteiP tliisj he presents water to wash the feet ; takes up 
water with the koshee, and pours it into the metal bowl ; and pre- 
sents at once rice, a vilivu leaf, eight blades of Doorva grass, paint, 
and Water, with incantations. He then presents water to wash the 
mouth, curds, sugar, honey ; then water to wash the mouth again, 
and water to bathe in, with prayers ; then cloth, jewels, gold, silver, 
ornaments, bedsteads, curtains, a bed, pillow, cloth, printed cloth ; 
ctothes for men, women, or children ; shoes, brass drinking cups, 
candlesticks, and whatever would be proper presents to the brahmins. 
It must not be supposed that all these articles are presented daily 
by the Hindoos. This account describes what is performed at festivals. 
In the daily worship, flowers, leaves, sacred grass, a little rice, &c., are 
presented. After this, paint, either red or white, is presented on a 
floW'er ; then eight or ten flowers ; leaves of the vilivu tree ; a necklace 
of flowers ; incense of three kinds, and a lighted lamp, with incanta- 
tions. After the bloody sacrifices, the oflferings are presented, com- 
prising rice, split-peas, different kinds of peas, shaddocks, pome- 
granates, pine-apples, netted custard-apples, another species of 
custard-apples, bread-fruit or jakus, mangoes, water-melons, cucum- 
bers, plantains, oranges, ginger, cocoa-nuts, almonds, raisins, guavas^ 
dates, jambus, jujubes, wood-apples, melons, sugar-canes, radishes, 
sweet-potatoes, kesooru, water, milk, curds, cream, butter, sour milk, 
clarified butter, sugar, sugarcandy, &c. &c. 
After presenting the offerings, the person repeats the name of a 
god for some time, and then prostrates himself, the spectators doing 
the same ; putting the cloth round his neck, and joining his hands, 
he offers praise to the god, and prostrates himself again. The dinner 
follow s, consisting of fried greens, and several other dishes made up 
of kidney-beans, varttakee, cocoa-nuts, &:c., fried together; split- 
peas, and several kinds of fried herbs or fruits ; four kinds of fish ; 
boiled and fried goat’s flesh, venison, and turtle; different fruits 
prepared with treacle ; rice and milk boiled with sugar ; things pre- 
pared with pounded rice ; curds, sweetmeats, &c. The fish, flesh, 
fried greens, and every thing of this kind, is eaten with boiled rice. 
A dish called kekooree, consisting of rice, split-peas, clarified butter, 
turmeric, and spices, boiled together, is also presented ; and then 
water to drink. With every article of food a separate prayer is 
offered. Water is next presented to wash the mouth, and a 
straw to pick the teeth, with prayers ; then the burnt-offering is 
made, and a present of money given. At last the person prostrates 
himself before the object of worship, and then retires to feast on the 
offerings with other brahmins. This is a detail of the form of wor- 
ship on a large scale, at w hich time it occupies the officiating brah- 
min two hours.” Vol. ii. p. 64, et seq. 8vo, 
The same gentleman has given the following interesting account, 
in a letter to a lady in this country. Addressing his female friend, 
he says 
There are, in Hindoostan, seventy-five millions of your sex who 
can neither read nor write, and thirty millions of these are British 
subjects. In every country not ameliorated by Christianity, the state 
of woman has alwas been most deplorable; but the Hindoo legislators 
