BOOK III
Concerning
the religion of the Musalmans and that of the Idolaters of India: the
voyage of the Author by sea from Surat to Batavia, and from Batavia to
Holland ; and of many peculiarities in different Kingdoms of the East ....... 135
Chapter I.—Concerning the religion of the Musalmans in the East Indies..........137
Chapter II.—Concerning Fakirs or Musalman beggars in the East Indies..........139
Chapter III.—Of the Religion of the Gentiles or Idolaters of India 141
Chapter IV.—Concerning the idolatrous Kings and Princes of Asia 147
Chapter V.—Concerning the belief of the Idolaters with respect to the Deity........ .149
Chapter VI.—Concerning Fakirs, or the professional Mendicants of India, and their penances . . . . . .153
Chapter VII.—Concerning the belief of the Idolaters touching the condition of the soul of man after death .... 158
Chapter VIII.—Concerning the Idolaters' custom of burning the bodies of the deceased ........ 161
Chapter IX.—How the women burn themselves with the bodies of their deceased husbands in India ..... 162/
Chapter X.—Remarkable
histories of several women who have been burnt after the death of their
husbands . . . . 169
Chapter XI.—Concerning the most celebrated Pagodas of the Idolaters of India ......... 175
Chapter XII.—Continuation
of the description of the principal Pagodas of the Idolaters of. India
. . . . . . .186
Chapter XIII.—Concerning the pilgrimages of the Idolaters to their Pagodas.........190
