ID       "                              CONTENTS.

CHAPTER  VIII.

ON    THE    DIFFERENT    CLASSES    OF    CREATED    BEINGS,   AND    ON
THEIR NAMES.

CHAPTER  IX.

ON    THE    CASTES,   CALLED    " COLOURS"   (VARNA),   AND   ON   THE
CLASSES  BELOW  THEM.

CHAPTER X.

ON THE SOURCE OF THEIR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL LAW, ON
PROPHETS, AND ON THE QUESTION WHETHER SINGLE LAWS
CAN  BE ABROGATED  OR NOT.

CHAPTER  XI.

ABOUT  THE BEGINNING  OF  IDOL-WORSHIP,  AND  A  DESCRIPTION
OP  THE  INDIVIDUAL  IDOLS.

CHAPTER  XII.

ON    THE   VEDA,    THE   PURANAS,    AND    OTHER   KINDS    OF    THEIR
NATIONAL LITERATURE.

CHAPTER  XIII.
THEIR GRAMMATICAL  AND  METRICAL   LITERATURE.

CHAPTER XIV.

HINDU    LITERATURE    IN    THE    OTHER    SCIENCES—ASTRONOMY,
ASTROLOGY,   ETC.

CHAPTER XV.

NOTES ON HINDU METROLOGY, INTENDED TO FACILITATE THE
UNDERSTANDING OP ALL KINDS OP MEASUREMENTS WHICH
OCCUR IN  THIS BOOK.

CHAPTER  XVI.

NOTES ON THE WRITING OP THE HINDUS, ON THEIR ARITH¬
METIC AND RELATED SUBJECTS, AND ON CERTAIN STRANGE
MANNERS  AND  CUSTOMS  OP  THEIRS.

CHAPTER  XVII.

ON    HINDU    SCIENCES    WHICH     PREY    ON    THE    IGNORANCE    OF
PEOPLE.