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EASTERN HINDOOSTAN. 139
All this country is filled with game, deer, antelopes, and
birds, terreftrial and aquatic, in numbers incredible: the fea and
river fwarm with fifhes. The wonder ceafes when we confider
the ftridt refpecl; paid by the Hindoos to the Pythagorean doc-
trine; they will not eat of any animal food, they will neither
deftroy any animal, or fuffer to be deftroyed.any thing in which
is life.
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Parcitc mortales dapibus temerare nefandis
Corpora. Sunt fruges j funt deducentia ramos
Pondere poma fuo, tumidasque in viribus uv»; ,
Sunt herbse dulces j funt quas mitefcere flamma
Mollirique queant. Nee vobis ladleus humor,
Eripitur, nee mella thymi redolentia florem,
Prodiga divitias alimentaque mitia tellus
Suggerit, atq. epulas fine caede et fanguine prsebet
Carne ferse fedant jejunia.
They never drink wine. Like the followers of Pythagoras they
never eat of any thing that had life ; like them they firmly be-
lieve in the tranfmigration of fouls; they hold the elements of
water and fire in the utmoft veneration; the water of the Ganges
is thought peculiarly facred. A cow is moft particularly re-
ipected. They are monogamifts, have their deities, idols of the
wildeft and moft horrible forms, have wonderful legends of
their adlions and moft myftic tales. The Pagodas are the tem-
ples, many of extravagant magnificence in ftrange and vaft
fculptures.
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All this country is filled with game, deer, antelopes, and
birds, terreftrial and aquatic, in numbers incredible: the fea and
river fwarm with fifhes. The wonder ceafes when we confider
the ftridt refpecl; paid by the Hindoos to the Pythagorean doc-
trine; they will not eat of any animal food, they will neither
deftroy any animal, or fuffer to be deftroyed.any thing in which
is life.
•
Parcitc mortales dapibus temerare nefandis
Corpora. Sunt fruges j funt deducentia ramos
Pondere poma fuo, tumidasque in viribus uv»; ,
Sunt herbse dulces j funt quas mitefcere flamma
Mollirique queant. Nee vobis ladleus humor,
Eripitur, nee mella thymi redolentia florem,
Prodiga divitias alimentaque mitia tellus
Suggerit, atq. epulas fine caede et fanguine prsebet
Carne ferse fedant jejunia.
They never drink wine. Like the followers of Pythagoras they
never eat of any thing that had life ; like them they firmly be-
lieve in the tranfmigration of fouls; they hold the elements of
water and fire in the utmoft veneration; the water of the Ganges
is thought peculiarly facred. A cow is moft particularly re-
ipected. They are monogamifts, have their deities, idols of the
wildeft and moft horrible forms, have wonderful legends of
their adlions and moft myftic tales. The Pagodas are the tem-
ples, many of extravagant magnificence in ftrange and vaft
fculptures.
T 2 The