stanza 6, sloka 4

Stanza VI

4. He builds them in the likeness of older wheels, placing them on the Imperishable Centres.

How does Fohat build them? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life thereinto, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus acts Fohat from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities.”

 

“Mr. Sinnett:  Do the Todas speak other languages besides their own?

 
Mme. Blavatsky:  They speak [   ].  Nobody in the world would know their rites, that they have – some of the rites, that they perform in their crypts, they do in every one of their little houses, which are just like beehives, with a little door where they must come out bending.

 
They have their buffaloes there, and among the buffaloes there is a leader with the silver bells, and one of them has golden bells, and he is a superb animal; but tell me how it is that never a tiger or leopard touches them?

 
This is a thing Webster told me. His father was one of the first to go there 70 years ago, when it was discovered. A man who was in trouble a few years ago in Madras – he was on the Council of the Governor together with Webster there, and his father was one of the first who went there, so he has enormous narratives of them.

 
He was born there, and he has been telling me many things. And he says never was there a case known that one of their cattle was carried away. But these Bagadas number about 10,000; the Mulakurumba are many thousands; but they {the Todas} never vary between 600 and 700.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky