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The Ignorance and Deceit of Brahmanism

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 46.

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The Ignorance and Deceit of Brahmanism

The ignorance and deceit of Brahmanism is well illustrated by an incident narrated by a Zenana visitor in India. He was calling on a lady a day previous to a lunar eclipse. A Brahman priest, freshly bathed and marked with holy ashes, came to prescribe a ritual to be observed on the day of the eclipse, and gave the woman a bundle of sticks, telling her to break them into every pot of water in her house, and this would act as “an antidote to the poison that the snake which was swallowing the moon would vomit!”