and having returned to his primitive form, either male or female, he will be tormented in the world of darkness, which they call _andhatamasa_;[302] from this place of manifold torments he never returns. This is the substance of the creed of the worshippers of Vichnu, called Madhu Acháris.[303] The belief of another sect of the Vichnavas, called _Rámánandis_,[304] is in substance as follows: the quality of _Satwa_ tends towards the attainment of the high state of _mukt_, or “emancipation;” the way of acquiring it is, to lay aside all praises of another divinity; to abstain from the rites of any other sect; and to shun any other worship except that of the holy being of Vichnu, to whom alone all thoughts, all prayers, are to be directed, and whose remembrance is always to be kept. In the same manner as it is not permitted to a husband to desire the wife of another, in the same way they hold it wrong to think of any other deity but of Vichnu. The difference between the beforesaid and this sect is, that the former associates to the worship of Vichnu that of other angels, of the creatures, servants, and companions of this God, which they maintain as meritorious, and perform with magnificence; whilst the latter sect considers the other deities as deformed and hideous. The characteristical mark of the Rámánandis is a triangle drawn upon their forehead;[305] they never eat their meal before persons of another sect. The _Madhu Achárís_[306] wear two short strokes of red clay near each other upon the forehead; they do not associate with persons of another creed, but they eat before Brahmans who are not of their own peruasion. A third sect is that of the _Harbayántís_.[307] They drink with Brahmans of another persuasion from the same cup, and wear a circle as a mark on their foreheads. A fourth sect is that of the _Rádhá-Vallabhis_;[308] these are bound by nothing; they observe no fast on the eleventh day of the month; they deliver their wives to the disposition of their preceptors and masters, and hold this praiseworthy.