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MODERN HINDUISM. spectators ask them questions about missing relatives or future events, and their deliverances are supposed to be oracular” (Monier-Williams). Many strange festivals are held in connection with this devil-worship in India, and the facts show how general must formerly have Worship of been the practices now found among the more animals and savage races. The extensive animal worship
trees. of cows, serpents, monkeys, etc., and the worship of trees still prevailing is another considerable survival of more primitive times. It depends largely in India on the view taken of the sacredness of life, and the transmigration of the souls of men into animals. Deification of Again, the worship of great men seems even heroes and more deeply implanted in the Hindu than in
saints. the Chinese mind, and again and again great leaders, preachers, teachers or saints are deified, and regarded as incarnations of Vishnu or Siva; and even men of moderate fame are after death honoured and worshipped, and a shrine is set up to them in the place where they were best known. Surely we have said enough to show that in every way the Hindus are very remarkable for their worship of the superior powers in all conceivable forms.
See Oriental Religions : India," by S. Johnson, English and Foreign Philosophical Library. Sir W. W. Hunter's “ India," vol. vi. of the “Imperial Gazetteer of India," and also separately published. Rev. W. Ward's * View of the History, Religion and Literature of the Hindus, 1818." Rev. W. J. Wilkins's "Hindu Mythology and Modern Hinduism.” Sir MonierWilliams's “Religious Thought and Life in India," and "Indian Wisdom ; " " Sacred Books of the East.”]
| SR No. | 007305 |
| Book Title | Great Indian Religion |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | G T Bettany |
| Publisher | Ward Lock Bowden and Co |
| Publication Year | 1892 |
| Total Pages | 312 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 42 MB |