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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hindu Gods And Heroes, by Lionel D. Barnett This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India Author: Lionel D. Barnett Release Date: October 4, 2007 [EBook #22885] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HINDU GODS AND HEROES *** Produced by Thierry Alberto, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net The Wisdom of the East Series EDITED BY L. CRANMER-BYNG Dr. S. A. KAPADIA WISDOM OF THE EAST HINDU GODS AND HEROES STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE RELIGION OF INDIA BY LIONEL D. BARNETT, M.A., LITT * * * * * PREFACE The following pages are taken from the Forlong Bequest lectures which I delivered in March last at the School of Oriental Studies. Owing to exigencies of space, much of what I then said has been omitted here, especially with regard to the worship of Siva; but enough remains to make clear my general view, which is that the religion of the Aryans of India was essentially a worship of spirits--sometimes spirits of real persons, sometimes imaginary spirits--and that, although in early days it provisionally found room for personifications of natural forces, it could not digest them into Great Gods, and therefore they have either disappeared or, if surviving, remain as mere Struldbrugs. Thus I am a heretic in relation to both the Solar Theory and the Vegetation Theory, as everyone must be who takes the trouble to study Hindu nature without prejudice. L. D. B. _May 29, 1922._ * * * * * CONTENTS I. THE VEDIC AGE: Popular Religion, p. 9--Rig-veda and priestly religion, p. 11--Dyaus-Zeus, p. 14--Ushas, p. 18--Surya, p. 19--Savita, p. 19--Mitra and Varuna, p. 19-
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