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From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan

1892

Even the moonlight which till then had covered the sky with its silvery garb was gradually vanishing; and the brighter grew the rosiness of dawn over the small island that lay before us in the East the paler in the West grew the scattered rays of the moon that sprinkled with bright flakes of light the dark wake our ship left behind her as if the glory of the West was bidding good-bye to us whi [...] The vultures are in a way the grave-diggers of the Parsees and are under the personal protection of the Farvardania the angel of death who soars over the Tower of Silence watching the occupations of the feathered workmen. [...] Then the Chief Council of the New York branch decided upon sending a special delegation to India for the purpose of studying on the spot the ancient language of the Vcdas and the manuscripts and the wonders of Yogism. [...] Their caste divisions their total abstinence from flesh and their nen-worship of the relics of the saints are as strictly observed as the similar tenets of the Brahmans but like Buddhists they deny the Hindu gods and the authority of the Vedas and adore their own twenty-four Tirthankaras or Jinas who belong to the Host of the Blissful. [...] The death bleatings and buttings of the quadrupedal offering of antiquity have been polished by the hands of time and of civilization and as a result of this process we get the dying whisper of Rachel in the part of Adrienne Lecouvreur and the fearfully realistic "kicking" of the modern Croisette in the poisoning scene of The Sphinx.
philosophy religion
Pages
331
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142276
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi Petrovna Blavatsky view
In Bombay
3-42 unknown view
On the Way to Karli
43-65 unknown view
In the Karli Caves
66-104 unknown view
Vanished Glories
105-124 unknown view
A City of the Dead
125-139 unknown view
Brahmanic Hospitalities
140-175 unknown view
A Witch’s Den
176-195 unknown view
God’s Warrior
196-214 unknown view
The Banns of Marriage
215-233 unknown view
The Caves of Bagh
234-255 unknown view
An Isle of Mystery
256-296 unknown view
Jubblepore
297-318 unknown view
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i-ix unknown view

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