Storia do Mogor 265.8.5

265.8.5

There was a lady called Justa Padrao who slept in a bed of which the head was adorned with little bells of gold and silver, and these served at times to amuse her. She was so rich that she had her own room swept with brooms of gold, and other places with brooms of silver. Brooms in India have handles of fine twigs (ydes) and are not like those of Europe. When this lady left the house, either to go to church or pay a visit, two women servants preceded her with two golden censers to incense her. She had other special censers of silver to lend to the church on solemn occasions. From the little that I have said the reader can conceive in what grandeur the greater part of these people lived. The woman spoken of above when she came to die was so miserably off that she had not even a piece of cloth to make a shroud, and at her burial she was wrapped in a reed-mat. This is the fate of him who so far forgets his Creator.