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The Proceedings of the Convention of Religions in India 1909

1910

With the multiplicity of religious faiths increased the utility of religious conferences and when after the life-long preaching of that mighty soul; the Lord Buddha of the Hindus and the Buddhists his noble teachings had reached the farthest corners of India we come upon the earliest existence of such a holy gathering held at Rajgir (Behar) in B. C. 543 under the auspices of the king Ajatasat [...] The Sataj5atha Brahmans of the Rigveda gives an interesting legend *bout the Deluge and describes how Manu built a ship at the instance of the Divine Fish who had apprised him of the approaching calamity and tiecl her to the horns of the Fish and landed her on the Himalayas after the flood. [...] We find the story of the quarrel between the Devas and the Asuras in the Avesta of the Parsees also. [...] One of the prayers addressed to the god of Fire runs thus The Omniscient the Lord of the Unverse luminous with many sparks the possessor of power and the giver of nutrition reveals the deathless &c." This is from the 3rd Mandal 25 3 of the Rigveda. [...] For that would leave it out of all relations with its correlative Diti which coming from the same root means the finite the limited and hence the manifested universe.* * The reader should here note the significance of the Aryan concetion of the Devas as the children of Aditi while the Asuras and others are all regarded as the offspring of Diti."xi It is only when the Aryans had preached their
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Pages
551
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145195
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Frontmatter
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Report of the Proceedings of the Con-vention of Religions in India
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The Visishtadwaita System of Philosophy
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Appendix
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