Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . She is not onlyclean, but holy, and is incapable ofdefilement. The remedy for sin is pen-itence, fasting, mortification of the body,prayer, and recitations of the of the greatest pollutions is drunk-enness. He who so sins is compelled todrink boiling rice water unto death. THE INDICANS.—RELIGION, 667 So far as earthly punishments areconcerned,they are adjusted to the prev-Pimishments alent false theories
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . She is not onlyclean, but holy, and is incapable ofdefilement. The remedy for sin is pen-itence, fasting, mortification of the body,prayer, and recitations of the of the greatest pollutions is drunk-enness. He who so sins is compelled todrink boiling rice water unto death. THE INDICANS.—RELIGION, 667 So far as earthly punishments areconcerned,they are adjusted to the prev-Pimishments alent false theories ofsin. Offenses done againstthe holy things are pun-ished in the highest degree. The mur-der of a person belonging to a lowercaste may pass with slight retribution,but the killing: of a cow is a mortal adjusted, to thefalse theory ofsin. One of the concepts peculiar to Brah-man ism is that of the incarnation of thedeities. It is known by Doctrine of the the name of avatar. On incarnation, or,i , the avatars. many occasions the greatgods of the Indie pantheon have passedinto the form of animals or , the preserver, has had tenavatars assigned to him, following each. THE COW OF INDIA— Drawn by A. de Neuville. crime. One who kills a Brahman withintent must thrust his own head threetimes into the fire, until he die. If thekilling is unintentional, he shall build ahut in the woods and live alone fortwelve years, carrying the skull of theslain man in his girdle. So throughoutthe whole list of human misdeeds thesame irrational and ill-adjusted methodsof punishment are employed. other in an ascending scale. In thefirst three instances he was incarnatedin the form of animals, namely, as afish, as a tortoise, and as a boar. Inthe fourth earthly revelation he was theManu lion. Then began the humanavatars. In the fifth estate Vishnu wasa dwarf; in the sixth, a hero; and inthe seventh, a Ramchandra and a Krish-na. Buddha himself was an incarna- 668 GREAT RACES OF MANKIN
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