[3] Saint Catherine de Genes.
[4] It is thus Brahma is represented in his avatar of divine wisdom.
[5] Paraubahzah Vushtoo, or First Cause.
[6] The Indian Cupid is frequently represented armed with a flash of lightning.
[7] Gungee, the presiding deity of the Ganges: she has eight vestal attendants, which personify the eight principal rivers in Hindoostan.
[8] Flowers have always been the tasteful medium for the eloquence of Eastern love: like the Peruvian quipas, a wreath, in India, is frequently the record of a life.
[9] To quit life, before it quits them, is among the Hindus no uncommon act of heroism; and this fatal custom arises from their doctrine of metempsychosis, in which the faith of all the various casts is equally implicit.
[10] This mystery is called the Matricha-machom. The Brahmins believe that the soul is thus conducted to the brain, and that the spirit is re-united to the Supreme Being.
[11] The vapour of naphtha which issues through the crevices of the earth, is supposed to be the cause of the flame which is sometimes observed in India. At Chittagong is a fountain which bursts into flame, and which has its tutelar deities and presiding priests. When it is purposely extinguished, it rekindles spontaneously.
[12] See translation of the Laws of Menu, by Sir William Jones.