गुलामगिरी १२९ protectors of the land. The incredible and foolish legends regar- ding their form and shape are. no doubt mere chimeras, the fact being that these people were of superior stature and hardy make. Under such leaders as Brahma, Purshram and others, the Brahmins waged very protracted wars against the original inhabitants. They eventually succeeded in establishing their supremacy and subjugating the aborigines to their entire control. Accounts of these conquests, enveloped with a mass of incredible fiction, are found in the books of the Brahmins. In some instances they were compelled to emigrate, and in others wholesale extermination was resorted to. The cruelties which the European settlers practised on the American Indians on their first settlement in the New World, had certainly their parallel in India on the advent of the Aryans and their subjugation of the aborigines. The cruelties and inhuman atrocities which Parshuram committed on the Kshetrias, the people of this land, if we are to believe even one tenth of what the legends say regarding him, surpass our belief and show that he was more a fiend than a God. Perhaps in the whole range of history it is scarcely possible to meet with such another character as that of Purshram, so selfish, infamous, cruel and inhuman. The deeds of Nero, Alaric of Machiavelli sink into insignificance before the ferocity of Parshuram . 'The myriads of men and defenceless children whom he butchered, simply with a view to the establishment of his coreligionists on a secure and permanent basis in this land, is a fact for which generations ought to execrate his name, rather than deify it. This, is short, is the history of Brahmin domination in India. They originally Settled on the banks of the Ganges whence they his friends, relations and acquaintances, he is greated at home with a welcome इडा पिडा जावो आणि बळीचे राज्य येवो "Letall troubles and mrsery go, and the kingdom of Bali come."wbereas the wife and sisters ot'a Brahmin place on that day in the foreground of the house an image of Bali made generally of wheaten orother four, and ben the Brahmin returns from his worship of the Shami Tree he taken the stalk of it, pokes with in the belly of the image and then nagses into the house. This contrariety, in the religious customs and usages obtaining amongst the Sadras and the Bralunins and of which many more examples might be adtuced, can be explained or no other supposition but that which I have tried to confirm and elucidate in these pages. एच-२२ १२
