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¹ *Barbosa*, Dames, I, p. 217. Barbosa describes in almost identical terms the Brahmans of Gujerat. *Ibid.*, I, pp. 114-17; Stanley, p. 94. Cf. the account of the Brahmans as given by William Metthwold who describes Golkonda and its inhabitants. "The Gentiles in the fundamentall points of their little religion doe hold the same principles which their learned clergie, the Bramenes (brāhmans), have from great antiquitie, and doe yet maintayne, but with an implicit faith, not able to give an account of it, nor any of their customes, onely that it was the custome of their ancestors". Metthwold, *Relations of Golconda*, p. 13.