On India's Frontier : Or, Nepal: the Gurkhas' Mysterious Land
On India's Frontier : Or, Nepal: the Gurkhas' Mysterious Land
Henry Ballantine
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This whole system, however, has a most de- moralizing effect on account of the women slaves and their debasement. For a counteracting influence, as supposed by •J > , LJS :»;( ^ND flUJ'I N F^J >.N )*>f .ONS. LAMA OR BHUDDIST PRIEST AT HIS DEVOTIONS. ON INDIA *S FRONTIER, 141 some, each family has its own guru or Brahmin priest, like a private chaplain. This office is hereditary ; at the same time there are thou- sands of this priestly profession idling about the city attached to this or that de...ity, fed at the expense of the State and given free quar- ters. I conversed at some length with one of this sanctimonious class in his own language — Mahrathi — to his great surprise. He came from a village near Satara of the Bombay Presidency and tramped as a bairagi — re- ligious mendicant — from shrine to shrine, covering a distance of 3,000 miles in two years. By that time he had reached this sacred spot, where he meant to end his days, clothed by public charity and fed from the Government bounty.
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