[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 259.2 # Storia do Mogor 259.2 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 259.2 - **Language:** English ### [259.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.259.2) On seeing this the shoemaker's wife said to her husband : ' You who have done so many virtuous actions in your life and given so much away in alms, give me as an alms to this Brahman, and it will form, I assure you, one of the most meritorious works you have either done or could do. For ' (she wound up with saying) ' this Brahman is our god, and to do his will is like sacrificing to God, for which you will be recompensed some day without fail.' The poor shoemaker, overcome by this reasoning so opposed to honour, and also by the poverty of his condition, gave his wife to the Brahman. The children born of this union follow in many respects the customs of their ancestor. Anxious to regain the honour they have lost, they still follow their forefather's habits, such as to twist thread, not to eat flesh or fish, not to cook nor eat where other castes can see them. For if anyone went and touched, or even drew near to, the place where they prepare their food or where they eat it, they would consider themselves polluted and defiled. On such occasions what they have already eaten they artificially vomit, and break the pots in which it has been cooked. They go off at once to bathe themselves so as to recover their purity. Furthermore, by the marriage above referred to, they have lost the honour of belonging to the Brahman caste, and equally so the right to study religion and sciences, a thing allowed to the Brahmans alone in this country. - [Previous: 259.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.259.1) - [Next: 259.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.259.3) - [Up: 259](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.259) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.259.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.259.2) · Pramāṇa