939 गुलामगिरी A Brahmin can do no wrong. Never shall the king slay a Brahmin, though he has committed all possible crimes. To save the life of Brahmin any falsehood may be told. There is no sir in it. No one is to take away anything belonging to a Brahmin. Aking, though dying with want, must not receive any tax from a Brahmin, nor suffer him to be afflicted with hunger or the whole kingdom will be afflicted with famine. The feet of Brahmin are holy. In his left foot reside all the ref (holy waters at places of pilgrimage) and by dipping it into water he makes it as holy as the waters at the holiest of shrines, A Brahmin may compel a man of the servile class to perform servile duty, because such a man was created by the almighty only for the purpose of serving Brahmins. A Sudra, though emancipated by his master, is not released from state of servitued; for being born in a state which is natural to him, by whom can he be divested of his natural attributes? Let a Brahmin not give temporal advice nor spiritual counsel to a Sudra. No superfluous occumluation of wealth shall be made by a Sudra, even though he has the power to make it, since a servile man who has amassed riches becomes proud, and by his insolence or neglect he gives pain even to Brahmins. If a Sudra cohabit with a Brahmanee adulteress, his life is to be taken. But if a Brahmin goes even unto the lawful wife of a Sudra he is exempted from all corporal punishment. It would be needless to go on multiplying instances such as these. Hundreds of similar ordinances including many more of a worse character than these can be found scattared over their books. But what can have been the motives and objects of such cruel and inhuman Laws? They are, I believe, apparent to all but to the infatuated, the blind and the selfinterested. Anyone who runs may read them. Their main object in fabricating these falsehoods was to dupe the minds of the ignorant and to rivet firmly on them the chains of prepetual bondage and slavery
