Storia do Mogor 247.13

247.13

For, seeing a number of modest women bathing in a pond, as is the custom of the country, he carried off their clothes, placed by them near at hand on the edge of the pond. When the women emerged, covered by leaves they had found in the water, he declined to return their clothes unless they worshipped him by raising the hand to their head, by which mode of adoration they were forced to uncover themselves. When they had complied he gave them their things [100] . Thus can you see what little shame such divinities possess ! Still less of it have those who admit them to be gods ; and such are the false tales they relate of their false god Vishnu, or, rather, as much as Christian modesty allows me to repeat.