Essays Relative to the Habits Character And Moral Improvement of the Hindoos
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When did ever your ancestors procure dancing girls in the time of the i^oorga^pooja, or invite Mlechas and feed them, which many of you now consider honourable ? At the time of other festivals many have Hindoosfhanee dancing girls- when d. D your ancestors thus > The forefathers of some' of you served the images in various families on a monthly salary; their sons now will scarcely receive a Shoodr«. u * l""' ""'''''"'■' ''"'' ^'"'''*«^' '">d even Bama- charees, * their children are now the foll...owers of Vishnoo, and of Cho. T^nya ; many of your ancestors were Voish- nuvas, and their children are now Shaktas ; many of them never worshipped Doorga, yet their children omit neither the worship of Doorga, nor of any other deity. Many of your ancestors sold their daughters; but their children having now become wealthy, have affianced their daughters to Koolin. S, and are become pre-eminently noble. Hence it appears that you are constantly acting ^n opposition to the practice of your forefathers, and that you cover yourselves with the shield of their au- thority, only on the subject of idol worship.
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