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CHAPTER XV.
Religious Life of the Orthodox Hindu Houselwlder.
Let me next direct attention to the religious life of the
strictly orthodox Brahman who has attained to the position
of possessing a separate house of his own.
I pass over the home-life of the anglicized Brahman of
advanced ideas, who has been educated under the auspices
of the British Government, but has not on that account been
able to avert the calamity of marriage with an uneducated
and bigoted wife of his own rank, or rid himself of all the
troublesome fetters of custom and caste. Such a life com-
bines social conditions which are incompatible. The result
is unpleasing. A combination is produced which is not
unlike the unwholesome product of a forced chemical union
between elements which naturally repel each other. What
I desire rather to describe in this chapter is the religious life
of the husband and wife who strive to perform their daily
duties according to the orthodox Brahmanical usage of
more modern times.
And here it may be well to introduce the subject of the
householder's life by glancing at the arrangements of the
material house which forms his abode.
Of course the houses of the poor in villages or in the
native quarters of even large cities need no description.
They are mere mud erections with bamboo roofs and thatch.
Those of the grade next above the poorest are little better.
Religious Life of the Orthodox Hindu Houselwlder.
Let me next direct attention to the religious life of the
strictly orthodox Brahman who has attained to the position
of possessing a separate house of his own.
I pass over the home-life of the anglicized Brahman of
advanced ideas, who has been educated under the auspices
of the British Government, but has not on that account been
able to avert the calamity of marriage with an uneducated
and bigoted wife of his own rank, or rid himself of all the
troublesome fetters of custom and caste. Such a life com-
bines social conditions which are incompatible. The result
is unpleasing. A combination is produced which is not
unlike the unwholesome product of a forced chemical union
between elements which naturally repel each other. What
I desire rather to describe in this chapter is the religious life
of the husband and wife who strive to perform their daily
duties according to the orthodox Brahmanical usage of
more modern times.
And here it may be well to introduce the subject of the
householder's life by glancing at the arrangements of the
material house which forms his abode.
Of course the houses of the poor in villages or in the
native quarters of even large cities need no description.
They are mere mud erections with bamboo roofs and thatch.
Those of the grade next above the poorest are little better.