42 The Religion of the V C(12).

‘ “ Housebooks“ togetherleybere with unrivalled preui» ‘4 sion ofdetailthe religion of the obi-strum and the hum- ble. For many a Hindu, through many centurim, ‘ these fond tittlevlttonored customs of the fathers, the sweet? .s'z'fz't', was: the true religion, which turned inward, irradiating and sustaining" the Spirit of :1 1mm ple whose mosses live the life ofchtrk toil illltl (in not see the light revealed to their own eleetu Tu the development of the higher and ultimate religion of the Veda. these homely practices and Superstition»; contribute very little.

Gite r122: against fezayzdm'.

1. Up to the sun shall go thy heartache and thy jaundice: in the colour of the red bull do we enveIOp

thee!

2.. We envelop thee in red tints, unto long life. May this person go unscathed, and be free of yellow colour!

3. The cows whose divinity is Rohint, they who, more over, are themselves red [rawhidmin their every form and every strength. we do envelop thee.

4‘. Into the parrots, into the reflect/ire; (thrush) do we put thy jaundice; into the Act'm'e’mms (yellow wagteil) do we put thy yellowness.

(AteemcbVede, i. 22.)‘

1 See the author, [232mm of we Atfiarmn Vent: (Sacra! Bahia (If at: East, vol, xiii.) p. 7. For the very interesting symbolic practices that accompany the recital of this charm against jaundice, see p. 263i. of the same work.