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"^ '""' Hint' syctjuov, u wat&meoilXtV irao'iv, ucneif ot vuv JEyx^urwrM xoiXi^jitEvoi. fio-i h rm ItSm oi ntf Barla ttsiSojuhoi ijra^.ayfi^in.oiait' ov ^i ursfffoW rE/^voTnTofw; 0Eoy TETiftnx^^'i— Stroni. Lib. 1. / P. 134. I. 13. [even if a survey of the religious edifices in India.] See a Paper by Capt.Mackeiizie and MK Harington in the, 6th Vol. of Asiatic Res-earches, of a temple near Qali- ture. This temple exhibits part of a very ancient edifice built entirely In ihs Hindu style, and- decorated with SGUlptural' fir gures-of the Divinities of the Brahme'ns; and upon. this ed^ce a structure, comparatively modern, has been raised in a stylis of architecture totally different, and surrounded with emblematical representations of £uf2f2^a. P. igo. 1. 20. [the sect of Vishnu.] The sect of Fishnu appears to have joined in the phallic worship, with the sect of Siva, until the latter introduced the worsiup of Cali, and ths tan^nary rites that attended it, i'i •32-1 P. 195. 1.. 3. ' [The Mystic word Om."] The three mysterious words of, Kcyl, 0/*j nf, which were used at the conclusion of the mysteries of Eleusis, have long baffled all attempts at explanarion.. They are interpreted by Le Clerc to signify " Watch and abstain from evil." These words are now found to be pure Sanscrit, and are used at this day,' by Brahmins at the conclusion of their religious ceremonies. The significancy of their connection, will not however,' even npw, appear very clear. They are thus written in the^language of the Gods, as the JBindus call rhe Sanscrit language : Canscha, Om, Pachsa. Canscha signifies the object of our most ardent wishes :. Om is the famous monysyllable used at the beginning and conclusion of a prayer : Pacfoa exactly answers to the obsolete Latin word Vix; it signifies change,' course, place, fortune. It is Used particularly after pouring water va. honor of the Gods and Fiiris. P. 223. 1.22. [The remarkable configuration 0/ their hands, 1 The same instniments which an Indian employs to make a piece of cambric, would, under the rigid fingers of an Euro- pean, scarcely produce a piece of canvas. — Orme, P. 230. 1, 3. [In those occupatioTis which require perseverance without exertion."] It is common to see the accounts of a huck- ster in his stall, who does not exchange the value of two-rupees in a day, as voluminous as the books of a considerable merchant in Europe,— 'The peculiar patience of the Gentoos in bengal, their affection to business and the cheapness of all produc. tions, cither of coinmerce or necessity, had concurred to ren- der the details of the revenue, the most minute, voluminous^ and complic'ated accounts, which exist in the universe: inso- much that the Emperor lehangire (altliough the Mohammedans had been sovereigns of the country for three centuries) says in his note book, that the appUcation often years was requisite to obtain a competent knowledge of them. — Orme. ' P. 254. 1.10. [fVe shall hear Mteceniis.'] Gihhon, mhlci by his admiration of the tolerant spirit of Paganism, seems to think that Dion Cassius, from whom this passage is quoted, has put these sentiments into the mouth of Mgscenas, to whoso character they are by no means accordant. But Suetonks in- forms us, that Augustus enacted a law founded on this very principle. Sapxit ut priusqaapi consuleret quisque^ thure' ac mero supplicaret, apud aram ejas Dei incujus templotoirctw, — Sueton. Vit Augus. c. SS. ' . 325 P. 282. 1. 26. [gained at first by undue compliances.']—— Urbano Cerri, in his account of the Cathilic Religion, men- tions a Jesuit named Robertus de Nobili, who taught that every one should remain in his own caste, and by this policy made many converts. He also proposed to erect a seminary or Chris- tian Brahmms. But the Sec of Rome disapproved his design, and defeated his labors. ' P, 305. 1. 6. [His opinion on the subject of Indian conversion,] We may assure ourselves that neither Mussulmans, or Hindus, will ever be converted by any mission from the Church of Rome, or from any other church j arid the only human mode perhaps, of .causing so great a revolution, will be to translate, iaio Sanscrit Sind .Persian', such chapters of the Prophets, par- ticularly of Isaiah, as are indisputably evangelical, together with one of the Gospels, and a plain prefaratory discourse, containing full evidence of the very distant ages, in which the predictions themselves, an,d the history of the divine person predicted, were severally made' public: and then quietly to disperse the work among the well-educated natives ; with whom, if in due time it &iled of producing very salutary fruit by its natural influence, we could only lament more than ever the strength of prejudice, and the weakness of unassisted rea- son.-w'Sir W. Jones on the (jQds of Greece, Italy, atid India* THE END, ;ii 'is* ji ' n^H