Note 16 — Chapter V · Trial by Ordeal.
Reading edition
According to Jolly, the translator of this book, the materials for the text date back many centuries before Christ and some of the old laws treated of, belong to the remotest antiquity, p. XX.
Rishi Narada was a celebrated Hindu Sage and Lawgiver, supposed to have been the son of Brahma and Saraswari. Mrs. Manning’s “Ancient and Med. India,” Vol. I., pp. 146, 249; Vol. II., pp. 119, 134.
The ordeal of the eucharist was based upon the statement of the Apostle, construed with pious veneration and accepted literally “he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself.” I. Corinthians XI., 28, 29; Lea, “Superstition and Force,” (3 ed.) 304.