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MODERN HINDUISM. of the world is very commonly considered by the Hindu to be the sport or amusement of the supreme Being.
The life of Krishna, as given by this Purana, is so full of fabulous marvels as to read like an Arabian Night's story, without its charm. It is sufficient to say that this
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RAVANA. (From a native picture. See account of Ramayana, p. 63.) Purana did not work the great development of Vishnu
Great worship, which was due to a series of VishVishnuite nuite preachers, beginning with Ramanuja in preachers. the 12th century, rising against the cruel doctrines of the Sivaites. It was not till the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century that the great
