According to Pictet the Latin word _crimen_ is derived from the Sanscrit _karman_, which signifies action corresponding to _kri_ to do. This is contradicted by Vanicek who derives it from _kru_, to hear, _croemen_ (accusation). At any rate, the Sanscrit word _apaz_, which means sin, corresponds to _apas_, work (_opus_), the Latin _facinus_ derives from _facere_, and _culpa_ according to Pictet and Pott, from the Sanscrit _kalp_, to do or execute. The Latin word _fur_ (thief) which Vanicek derives from _bahr_, to carry, the Hebrew _ganav_ and the Sanscrit _sten_ only signify to put aside, to hide, to cover (_gonav_). The Greek word _peirao_ from which pirate is derived, signifies to risk; the Greek _chleptein_ to hide or steal, is derived from the Sanscrit _harp-hlap_ to hide and steal (Vanicek). In India, from Ceylon to the Himalayas, infanticide is sanctified by religion, not only among the more barbarous races, but also among the Rajputs, the nobles, who think themselves dishonoured if one of their daughters remains unmarried. The inhabitants of the Island of Tikopia, kill more male children than female, a fact that accounts for their practice of polygamy. Marco Polo speaks of the infanticide practised in Japan and China, which was then, as it is now, a means of regulating the population. The same practice--common to Bushmen, Hottentots, Fijians, also existed among the natives of Hawaii and America. In the Island of Tahiti, according to the testimony of missionaries, two thirds of the children born are destroyed by their parents. "Amongst the Guaranys," says D'Azara, "mothers kill a large proportion of their female infants, in order that the survivors may be more highly valued." (_Travels in America_, 1835.) The Carthaginians had originally the custom of offering the noblest and most beautiful children to Kronos (Moloch), but later victims were always bought and bred for the purpose. After their defeat at the hand of Agathokles they sacrificed two hundred children belonging to the noblest Carthaginian families, in order to appease the Divine wrath. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Cretans, Cypriotes, Rhodians, and Persians had similar practices. Among the Lydians, the sacred courtesans were so numerous and wealthy that their contributions to the Mausoleum of Alyattes exceeded those of the artists and merchants combined (Herodotus, Book I.); in Armenia (Strabo XII.) the priestesses alone were permitted to practise polyandry, and in Media, a woman boasting of five husbands was greatly honoured, which shows that polyandry was not only allowed, but esteemed. In Thibet, the eldest male of a family shares his wife with his brothers, the whole family live in the bride's house and the children inherit from her. Among the _Todas_, the wife espouses all her husband's younger brothers as they attain their majority, and they in their turn become the husbands of her younger sisters (Short).