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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 "Let all troubles and misery go, and the kingdom of Bali come." whereas the wife and sisters of a Brahmin place on that day in the foreground of the house an umage of Bali, made generally of wheaten or other flour, and when the Brahmin returns from his worship of the Shami Tree he takes the stalk of it, pokes with in the belly of the image and then passes into the house. This contrariety, in the religious customs and usages obtaining amongst the Sudras and the Bralumins and of which many more examples might be adduced, can be explained or no other supposition but that which I have tried to confirm and elucidate in these pages. एच-२२ 92
