A

VIEW

OF THE

HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND RELIGION

OF

THE HINDOOS:

INCLUDING

A MINUTE DESCRIPTION OF

THEIR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS,

AND

TRANSLATIONS FROM THEIR PRINCIPAL WORKS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

BY THE REV. W. WARD,

ONE OF THE BAPTIST MISSIONARIES AT SERAMFORE, BENGAL

THE THIRD EDITION,

CAREFULLY ABRIDGED AND GREATLY IMPROVED.

LONDON:

Printed, by Order of the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society, for
BLACK, PARBURY, AND ALLEN, BOOKSELLERS TO THE
HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY, LEADENHALL-STREET;
By W. H. Pearce, High-street, Birmingham.

To the Memory of

THE REV. SAMUEL PEARCE, OF BIRMINGHAM ; THE REV. JOHN SUTCLIFF, OF OLNEY;

AND

THE REV. ANDREW FULLER, of KETTERING ;

and to

THE REV. JOHN RYLAND, OF BRISTOL; THE REV. JOHN FAWCETT, OF HEPDEN-BRIDGE;

AND

THE REV. ROBERT HALL, OF LEICESTER;

and to

THE REV. WILLIAM CAREY,

AND ALL THE OTHER EUROPEAN AND OTHER COLLEAGUES OF THE AUTHOR IN INDIA;

THIS WORK IS VERY AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,

BY

THE AUTHOR,

SERAMPORE, June, 1815.

VOL. 1.