HISTORICAL EVENTS,

Relative to the

PROVINCES OF BENGAL,

AND THE

EMPIRE OF INDOSTAN.

WITH

A Seafonable HINT and PERSUASIVE

To the Honorable

The COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY.

AS ALSO

1

The MYTHOLOGY and COSMOGONY, FASTS and FESTIVALS of the GENTOOS, Followers of the SHASTA H.

AND

A DISSERTATION on the METEM PSYCHOSIS, commonly, though erroneously, called the PYTHAGOREAN Doctrine.

By J. Z. HOLWELL, Esq;

PART III.

LONDON:

Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT, near

Surry-Street, in the Strand.

MDCCLXXI. '...

TO THE MOST NOBLE

THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND,

NOT MORE CONSPICUOUS

FROM

THE SPLENDOR OF HIS TITLES,

THAN

DISTINGUISHED BY THE LUSTRE OF HIS MERITS, BELOVED FOR HIS AMIABLE QUALITIES,

REVERED FOR HIS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES, THE LOVER OF ARTS, THE FRIEND OF LEARNING,

THE PATRON OF SCIENCE,

THIS ESSAY

(INTENDED TO RESCUE FROM ERROR AND

OBLIVION THE ANCIENT RELIGION OF INDOSTAN)

IS DEDICATED,

BY (A LOVER OF TRUTH, AND AN ADMIRER OF

HIS GRACE's EXALTED CHARACTER)

TON LIBRARY

J. Z. HOLWELL.

NEW-YORK