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Hindu Mythology

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Item Code: UBI101
Publisher: Rupa Publication Pvt. Ltd.
Author: W.J Wilkins
Language: English
Edition: 2022
ISBN: 9788129129819
Pages: 479 (Throughout B/w Illustrations)
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 8.50 X 5.50 inch
Weight 500 gm
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About The Book

This is an authoritative and exhaustive account of the Hindu gods and goddesses commonly worshipped in India, their origin, nature, and the myths and legends that grew around them. It covers the entire pantheon of the ancient Vedic era as well as the more contemporary Puranic age. The lesser deities, demons, the sacred birds, animals and trees, have also been explained in great detail.

The Hindu pantheon has so many gods and goddesses that even the very devout find it difficult to remember them all.

They are presented here in a single volume, each identified and brought alive, giving the reader a complete picture of the Hindu theogony.

About the Author

The author's purpose has been to collect materials so that they may be arranged in such a way that the reader can conveniently gain a good general idea of the names, character and relationship of the principal deities of Hinduism. These deities have been described, discussed and classified so far as possible according to the words of the sacred books of the Hindu scriptures so that subjective prejudice or bias have been eliminated in favour of an objective approach to the subject. The many illustrations have been copied from the designs of Hindu artists and therefore reflect the attitudes and interpretations of those to whom the religion is a living thing. The method of classification is intended to afford the reader a clear general view of Hindu mythology.

Preface

As a large edition of this work has been sold out, and a new one called for, an opportunity is presented of adding a few words to what was said eighteen years ago. The reception given to it both in India and in England was most gratifying, practically the only serious condemnation of it being that I had not pronounced judgment on much that I had quoted from the Hindu sacred books. This was a task that I distinctly disavowed in my preface. I set out with the intention of rigidly abstaining from comment, commendatory or condemnatory. I feel that a mere statement of much that was written in books professedly inspired by God, carried its own condemnation. And at the same time it was a pleasure to indicate how, amid much evil, there was also much good. The sages of India were not in complete darkness. As we examine the earlier writings, the light was bright indeed contrasted with what came later. It is most instructive to notice the marked deterioration in the quality of the teaching, deities as described by the earlier sages being vastly better than their successors declare them to be. "Non-Christian Bibles are all developments in the wrong direction. They begin with some flashes of true light, and end in darkness." As Max-Müller says, "The more we go back, the more we examine the earliest germs of any religion, the purer I believe we shall find the conceptions of the Deity."

In this edition there is some added matter. Errors have been corrected, and an attempt made to render certain passages more clear that were somewhat obscure. Substantially the book remains the same. An account of the ordinary worship and the festivals of these gods will be found in another work- "Modern Hinduism."

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