he description of the floating-test as
seen by a Chinese traveller in India in the seventh century A.D.:[44]
"The accused is put into a sack and a stone is put into another sack.
The two sacks are connected by a cord and flung into deep water. If
the sack with the man sinks and the sack with the stone floats the
accused is declared to be innocent."

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Literally, transmigration, the doctrine of
metempsychosis, successive births; first, as in Plato:
[Greek: _metabole tis tugchanei ousa kai metoikeois te
psuche ton topon tou enthende eis allon tochon_], then
_metabole_, from 'the other place,' back to earth; then,
with advancing speculation, fresh _metabole_ again, and so
on; a theory more or less clumsily united with the
bell-doctrine.]

[Footnote 2: Weber has lately published two monographs on
the sacrifices, the R[=a]jas[=u]ya and the V[=a]japeya
rites, both full of interesting details and popular
features.]

[Footnote 3: The traditional sacrifices are twenty-one in
number, divided into three classes of seven each. The formal
divisions are (1) oblations of butter, milk, corn, etc.; (2)
_soma_ sacrifices; (3) animal sacrifices, regarded as part
of the first two. The sacrifice of the new and full moon is
to be repeated on each occasion for thirty years. A
_sattra_, session, is a long sacrifice which may last a year
or more.]

[Footnote 4: The latter are the metrical codes, a part of
Smriti (sm[r.]ti).]

[Footnote 5: The Five Paramount Sacrifices (Observances)
are, according to Manu III. 70, study of the Veda (or
teaching it); sacrifice to the Manes and to the gods;
offerings of foods to ghosts (or spirits); and hospitality.]

[Footnote 6: In the report of the Or. Congress for 1880, p.
158 ff., Williams has a very interesting account of the
daily rites of the modern orthodox Hindu ('_Rig Veda in
Religious Service_').]

[Footnote 7: We ignore here the later distinction between
the Ved[=a]nta and S[=a]nkhya systems. Properly speaking,
the latter is dualistic.]

[Footnote 8: At a later date Buddha himself is admitted into
the Brahmanic pantheon as an _avatar_ of the All-god!]

[Footnote 9: Sometimes regarded as one with Praj[=a]pati,
and sometimes treated