এই পাতাটির মুদ্রণ সংশোধন করা প্রয়োজন।
[ 34 ) Moreover, it is declared in their Sasthas, in enumerating the seven degrees of Sin, that the “reading of books of any other religion,” is reckoned among sins of the third degree; and equal in enormity to a man’s “ refusing assistance to his relations, in a manner befitting his circumstances;”---to ** the selling of his wife or son;”–to “ the murder of a man of any of the three inferior classes, or of a woman”.” Can'the Hindoos then, with propriety, even peruse the Book which the Missionaries have been at the trouble of translating for their use? But the Missionaries tell them that their “Sastras are only fit for the amušement of children:" let us therefore hear their lawgiver Menu.
- Ayeen, Akbery, vol, iii, P. 248.
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