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HINDU CASTE MARKS 255 they are protected against the devil, or lamma (Yama), the judge of hell, so that none of them may lay hands upon them or draw nigh them. The Tadwadi promise Wistnou to acknowledge him as the only god and to obey him without accepting any other one deity or obeying any other god. Nevertheless, they add hereto that it is not enough to make such a promise, but that a godly and virtuous life must be led at all times, and that a promise which is not fulfilled shall profit nothing, but that such service shall find its meet punishment. The Tadwadi Weistnouwa have a chief of their sect who liveth in the neighbourhood of Paliacatta, in a place called Combeconne, where he is well known. He weareth no cord about his neck like the other Bramines, nor hath he any wife, but when he entereth upon his dignity, he leaveth all, and commonly goeth with a bamboo reed in his hand. The Ramanouja Weistnouwa mark themselves with a mark which is almost a Greek upsilon, making it on the forehead extending upward from the nose. For this they use namou, a material almost like white chalk; but where the arms join the shoulder-blades, they brand another mark, and say that this mark branded in their flesh is enough, and that they need not mark all their limbs daily. They say that when they have given them- selves to their god with a good and upright heart, and have promised to be his servants without recognizing any other, that this is enough, and that, even if they do not conduct themselves well for the rest of their life, nevertheless God will be gracious unto them be-