[29] Raja Narayan Basu (Bose), in enumerating the sacred books of Hinduism, excluded the philosophical systems and included the Tantras. He was and, we believe, is a leading man in the Adi Brahma Somaj.
[30] Barth, as above, p. 202.
[31] So writes Vans Kennedy, a good authority. The rites, however, vary with varying places.
[32] Asiatic Researches, v, p. 356.
[33] Cicero.
[34] We learned from his own lips that among the books which most deeply impressed him were the Bible and the writings of Dr. Chalmers.
[35] See Life of Mohammed, p. 138. Smith & Elder.
[36] Life of Mohammed, p. 172, where the results are compared.
[37] Life of Mohammed, p. 341; Sura ii, 257; xxix, 46.
[38] The only exceptions were the Jews of Kheibar and the Christians of Najran, who were permitted to continue in the profession of their faith. They were, however, forced by Omar to quit the peninsula, which thenceforward remained exclusively Mohammedan.