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Nevertheless they are afraid, like the preceding, to
avow their belief openly, for that they fear peril of
their lives, since the zealous souls of others could not
endure this horrible godlessness, but such would readily
fall upon them, even as many of them have been killed
for this belief aforetime.
The sixth sect is named Tschectea (Saktis), who
say that neither Wistnou nor Eswara is the chief god,
but one Tschecti (Skt. Sakti, " power "), from whom
Wistnou, Eswara, and Bramma have their origin, and
that they exist through his might, and that the world
and all that is therein hath its being through him. These
are like the aforesaid in that they will not submit them-
selves to the Vedam, but require that men shall prove
all things to them so that they may see it with their
own eyes and that their hands may handle it. These
three last sects are held as heretics by the heathen and
have but few followers of their evil belief.'
In the eleventh chapter of the first book of his
" Open Door " Roger deals with the subject of mar-
riage among the Brahmans, telling of the early age
at which children are married and the manner in which
the match is made, and describing the performance of
the marriage ceremony.
' The Bramins are concerned right early to see that
their sons obtain a wife and their daughters a husband;
but it must be known that the Bramines, the Settreas,
and also the Weinsjas may not take this matter in hand
before that their sons have received the Brahmanical
cord. They that be wealthy and rich are much earlier
