Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s2.t1.148

c7.s2.t1.148

¹ Compare Macauliffe, I, 132, for a description; also A.A., 172-3, for Hindu manners in eating. It is worth while recalling in this connection that the correspondent of the ‘Daily Telegraph’, London, reported as follows on the departure of a famous Brahman Congress Leader from Bombay to attend the Round Table Conference in London (*Vide* ‘Daily Telegraph’, 4th September, 1931) :— "In addition (to 120 quarts of ritualistic pasteurised milk for consumption on the journey) he has brought twenty gallons of water from the sacred Ganges river for ablution and drinking purposes...Oddest of all the luggage is a consignment of nearly half a ton of mud from the Ganges which the Pundit is bringing with him. Belonging to the highest priestly caste, the Pundit, it is explained, converts the sacred mud into miniature gods for worshipping purposes.'...The last item of the news was later contradicted by his son from London.