1 CAUFI&ISTAUM.
2 •god-of the waters, ad, Maunee, who expeDad Yooah, or the evil principle*
3 from the world. 3d, Murrur. 4th, Umim. 5tli, Pursoo. 6th, Geesh.
4 7th, Seven brothers of the name of Paradik, who had golden bodies, and
5 were created from a golden tree. 8th, Purron, seven golden brothers of the
6 same kind. 9th, Kooniye, whoui Moollah Nujeeb calls the wife ui' Adam,
7 iftth, THf—iiiwm, «ile of Geesh. iitii, Doolne. latli, Surijoo. And
8 lijib. Niditee.
9 Those of the Taookooee* are Maunde» peduiiw Maune, before mentioned.
10 Maraist, Murrasooree, and Indeijee, who may perhaps be the Hindoo god
11 Inder, or Indra, with the Indian title of Jee annexed to his name. Dhun-
12 put Roy (Mr. Irvine's Hindoo) was indeed positive in stating that the Cau-
13 £ir idols represented the Hindoo god Seddasbeo, and always bore a trident»
14 which is the ayiiibQl of that god. Ho also nid that they called some of their
15 gods Shee Mahadeo, and that they used the nine words as a sahilatmn to
16 each other : but these circumstances are inconsistent with other accounla^
17 and n*' Dhunput Roy himself admitted that the Caufirs ate beef, it seems
18 improbable that they bear so close a resemblance to the Hindoos. All ac-
19 counts also represent them as sprinkling their idols with blood, uiid even
20 widi lihe blood of cow^, which cannot be reoonctled to the Hindoo religion ^
21 and'^all repreient fire as lequisite at everjr rdigious ceremony.
22 Moollah Nujeeb was present on an occasion of this kind at Catundaish j it
23 was a sacrifice to Imra, and was celebrated at a particular place near the vil-
24 lage where there was a stone post, whfrh apj^ean;, by the MooUah's descrip-
25 ,tion, to have borne some resemblance to tiie lliudiX) emblem of Mahadeo :
26 a fire was kindled before it, through whidi flour, butter, and water, were
27 thrown on-the stone; at l^igth an animal was sacrified, and the blood tinown
28 thioui^ the fire on the stone; part of the flesh was biixned, and part eaten
29 by the assistants, who were numerous, and who accompaided the priest in
30 various prayers and de\'out gesticulations. One of the prayers was for the
31 .extirpation of the Mussulmans *. The worship of' idols is pecibnned nearly
32 * Some may be lutcreated hj the following details of the ceremony. The wood UKd in the Hcri>
33 fice, which MoolUi Nujeeb cdbKdiKtofkiianedKMOBOofiwTho^ aeoocdiagto
34 Dhttnput Rvf.
35 ^ ** Then k m itoiie wt upright aboot Ibar ftet 1i%b, iml bi bmddi about tbat of s itaol nm.
36 Thit is the Imrtan, or holy «;tor.c, and bt-hind it to th? north if a wall." This is all the temple.
37 •Tb« atiMie rcfinaent* Cod. Thcjr uy *' this sfaods for him, but we know not bit ihape." To the
38 ■o«Ui«f tbttaitaobMBiafiK of Kandior, a^CMof jAiewbidiiltbram wgnMtpwpoi^