Storia do Mogor 281.15.6

281.15.6

Nevertheless this is what they undertook some nine months ago, their reasons being, as above recited, their own interest and convenience, also the securing of their ends, their chief and most obvious motive wherever they are to be found. This it is which gives them the various impulses and movements which are displayed in their conduct. Having got it into their heads that they would build another house in addition to the one I have already spoken of — a house for one of their catechists — they chose a site close to one of the temple gardens. Not finding elbow room enough to make an enclosure of the sort they wished, they let it be announced that they possessed rights over a part of the adjoining garden, or even over the whole of it. But not wishing to give trouble to the worshippers at the temple to which it was consecrated, they were content in their moderation to take no more than one corner, solely to make more commodious the house of their catechist. The Hindu worshippers at that pagoda and their Brahman did not fail to resist; they protested against this encroachment and this unjust claim. Anything given and dedicated to a Pagoda is no longer under the control of even the donor, nor can he divert it to other uses. But the reverend fathers were in no wise perturbed at all this. Then the complainants gathered themselves together and once more lodged a petition.