16/23 Major S.C.Macpherson, _Memorials of Service in India_ (1865), and Frazer, _Golden Bough_, 3rd edition, Part V, vol.i (1912), pp. Bernier vividly describes an 'infernal tragedy' of this kind which he witnessed, in or about the year 1659, during Aurangzeb's reign, in Rajputana. On that occasion five female slaves burnt themselves with their mistress (_Travels_, ed. Constable and V.A.Smith (1914), p. Hinduism is a social system, not a creed, A Hindoo may believe, or disbelieve, what speculative doctrine he chooses, but he must not eat, drink, or marry, save in accordance with the custom of his caste. |