 | Hakluyt Society - 1847 - 126 pages
...with him, and die with their dead. 23. There be also other pagan-folk in this India who worship fire ; they bury not their dead, neither do they burn them,...of heaven. These believe in two First Principles, to wit, of Evil and of Good, of Darkness and of Light, matters which at present I do not purpose to... | |
 | Hakluyt Society - 1847 - 126 pages
...with him, and die with their dead. 23. There be also other pagan-folk in this India who worship fire ; they bury not their dead, neither do they burn them,...of heaven. These believe in two First Principles, to wit, of Evil and of Good, of Darkness and of Light, matters which at present I do not purpose to... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1895 - 368 pages
...that of Thames or Tiber. thus referred to : — " There be pagan folk in this India who worship fire ; they bury not their dead, neither do they burn them,...expose them totally uncovered to the fowls of heaven." He was present also at Suttee, for he says : — " I have sometimes seen for one dead man who was burnt,... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1895 - 368 pages
...thus referred to :—" There be pagan folk in this India who worship fire ; they bury not thendead, neither do they burn them, but cast them into the...expose them totally uncovered to the fowls of heaven." He was present also at Suttee, for he says :—" I have sometimes seen for one dead man who was burnt,... | |
 | Shapurji Kavasji Hodivala - 1920 - 202 pages
...to Broach in AD 1320-1322 wrote: "There be also other pagan-folk in this India, who worship fire ; they bury not their dead, neither do they burn them,...of heaven. These believe in two First Principles, to wit, of Evil and of Good, of Darkness and of Light." (Jule's Jordanus' Mirabilia, p. 21). AD 1323.... | |
 | Mary Boyce - 2001 - 284 pages
...the Parsis, of whom he wrote (p. 21): 'There be also other pagan-folk in this India who worship fire; they bury not their dead, neither do they burn them,...of heaven. These believe in two First Principles, to wit, of Evil and Good, of Darkness and Light, matters which at present I do not purpose to discuss.'... | |
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There be also other pagan-folk in this India who worship fire ; they bury not their dead, neither do they burn them, but cast them into the midst of a certain roofless tower, and there expose them totally uncovered to the fowls of heaven. 