. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . Krishna Nursed by an old and richly-colored Hindu paint-ing. (Reproduced from Moores Hindu Pantheon,plate, 59.) 88 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. harata, the Iliad of the Hindus, which describes the warbetween the Kurus and the Pandus,* both descendants ofBharata and both grandchildren of Vj^asa. Dhritarashtra,the father of the Kurus, was king of Hastinapur, but be-ing blind, Bhishma, his uncle, reigned in his a test of the faculties of the young princes, in which the Pandu Arjuna,
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . Krishna Nursed by an old and richly-colored Hindu paint-ing. (Reproduced from Moores Hindu Pantheon,plate, 59.) 88 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. harata, the Iliad of the Hindus, which describes the warbetween the Kurus and the Pandus,* both descendants ofBharata and both grandchildren of Vj^asa. Dhritarashtra,the father of the Kurus, was king of Hastinapur, but be-ing blind, Bhishma, his uncle, reigned in his a test of the faculties of the young princes, in which the Pandu Arjuna, the skilledbowman and the Hindu Tell,showed himself superior to allthe others, the oldest Pandu-prince, Yudhishthira, was in-stalled as heir apparent. TheKurus, however, who man-aged to remain in power, triedto burn the Pandus, but theyescaped and lived for sometime in the disguise of men-dicant Brahmans. Having al-lied themselves, by marriagewith Draupadi,! the daughterof Drupada, king of Panchala,with a powerful monarch, thePandus reappeared at Hastina-. a shepherd lad playing the flute [the flute is missing]. (Bronze statue, pv^r and iuduccd Dhritarashtra Musee Guimet.) ?,? •^ to divide the kingdom betweenhis sons, the Kurus, and his nephews, the Pandus; butat a festival, held at Hastinapur, Yudhishthira, the chief *The Pandus are also called Pandavas, and the Kurus Kamavas. f That the five Pandus held Draupadi in common as their wife, proves the highantiquity of the story. Polyandry was apparently a practice not uncommon in an-cient times. It prevails still to-day among the less cultured hill tribes. But beingat variance with the Aryan customs of the age in which the Mahabharata was versi- BRAHMANISM AND HINDUISM. 89 of the Pandus, staked in a game of dice his kingdom, allhis possessions, and Draupadi herself, and lost every-thing. The Knrns promised their cousins to return theirshare of the kingdom after thirteen years, if they wouldlive twelve years with Dra
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