Note 109 — IV. CONCERNING INDIA THE LESS.[71]

Apart from the Brahminical theosophies, the expressions of Hindus generally, when religious (not superstitious) feeling or expression is drawn out, by sorrow or the like, are often purely Theistic. Parmeswar or Bhagwán in such cases is evidently meant to express the One Almighty, and no fabled divinity. But the old geographer in Ramusio makes the singular assertion that “all the country of Malabar believes in the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and this beginning at Cambay and ending at Bengal”. Conti says the same at Ava, but he was doubtless misled by the Buddhist triad, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha—the Divine person, the Law, and the Congregation.