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no knowledge, but in this they do attack the notion
of the heathen, who believe in the cycle of the ages and
pretend that sometime the day will come when all shall
be again even as it now is. That belief they reject and
will have none of it. These, said the Bramin Pad-
manaba, are worse than the preceding, not alone be-
A TODA HUT AT UTAKAMAND IN SOUTHERN INDIA.
cause they have this belief and regard not caste, but
also because, even as the beasts, they make no difference
between father and mother, brother and sister; they
eat with each one of them, they sleep with each one
of them, and say that in the person of another woman
they but mate with their own wives. The Bramin Pad-
manaba testified that this godlessness sprang up be-
cause that these men sought not for a good name among
mankind nor expected any other life after this life.
