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Indian Myth and Legend

1911

'tile &der 5's iirrodeced to the various sacred works of the Hindbs including the ancient invocatory hymns of the figirridai the later speculative and expository "Forest pook;1 in &which "the.Absolute is grasped and proclaimed" Ind those rest epic poems the Reimdyana wittch °is dive times long an the Iliad and the Illeiheibharom„Rphich is four times ger than the ReAdyana. [...] The period from the efrliest rigrations uutil about 800 or 70o B. C! is usually referred to as the Vedic Age during which the Vedas or more particulaslf the invocatorr-hymns to the deities were composed and compiled! ilt the clog% or this Age the area of;Aryan control had extended egstward as far as the upper reache% of te Jumna and Gangeq rivers. [...] There aierekrenoes to burial in the "house of clay" and Yam; god of the dead was Adored as the first man who explored thejath to the "Land of the Ritris" (Fathers) which lay %Loss the'mountains. [...]. _ Agni of the Vedic Age is the messenger between gods and men; he conducts the deities to the sacrifice and ale souls of the cremated dead to Paradise; he is also the twin brother of Ifidra. [...] Evidently the Bhaiata invasion and the establisment of the middle country power of their allies the Ku;u-Panchalas was net uncon.nected with the intrduction of the doctrirles of.
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Preface
i-liii unknown view
Chapter I. Indra King of the Gods
1-18 unknown view
Chapter II. The Great Vedic Deities
19-37 unknown view
Chapter III. Yama the First Man and King of the Dead
38-60 unknown view
Chapter IV. Demons and Giants and Fairies
61-75 unknown view
Chapter V. Social and Religious Developments of the Vedic Age
76-96 unknown view
Chapter VI. Mysteries of Creation the World’s Ages and Soul Wandering
97-118 unknown view
Chapter VII. New Faiths:Vishnu Religion Buddhism and Jainism
119-137 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Divinities of the Epic Period
138-156 unknown view
Chapter IX. Prelude to the Great Bharata War
157-172 unknown view
Chapter X. Royal Rivals: the Pandavas and Kauravas
173-184 unknown view
Chapter XI. The Tournament
185-194 unknown view
Chapter XII. First Exile of the Pandavas
195-212 unknown view
Chapter XIII. The Choice of Draupadi
213-223 unknown view
Chapter XIV. Triumph of the Pandavas
224-236 unknown view
Chapter XV. The Great Gambling Matoli
237-248 unknown view
Chapter XVI. Second Exile of the Pandavas
249-269 unknown view
Chapter XVII. Defiance of Duryodhana
270-284 unknown view
Chapter XVIII. The Battle of Eighteen Days
285-309 unknown view
Chapter XIX. Atonement and the Ascent to Heaven
310-327 unknown view
Chapter XX. Nala and Damayanti
328-339 unknown view
Chapter XXI. Wanderings in the Forest
340-352 unknown view
Chapter XXII. Nala in Exile
353-363 unknown view
Chapter XXIII. The Homecoming of the King
364-373 unknown view
Chapter XXIV. Story of Rama: How Sita was Won
374-393 unknown view
Chapter XXV. The Abduction of Sita
394-407 unknown view
Chapter XXVI. Rama’s Mission Fulfilled
408-428 unknown view
Index
429-463 unknown view

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