A view of the history, literature, and religion of the Hindoos, including a minute description of their manners and customs, and translations from their principal works . man sacrifices, I am informed,were formerly offered to this goddess.—^So numerous are the sacri-fices, that the water of the pool, in which the dead bodies arethrown immediately after decapitation, becomes the colour of bodies are taken otit of the pool again in a little time afterthe sacrifice. The disciples of this goddess are very numerous. KUroonamUyee^.—In some places the image of this goddess isset up and wo
A view of the history, literature, and religion of the Hindoos, including a minute description of their manners and customs, and translations from their principal works . man sacrifices, I am informed,were formerly offered to this goddess.—^So numerous are the sacri-fices, that the water of the pool, in which the dead bodies arethrown immediately after decapitation, becomes the colour of bodies are taken otit of the pool again in a little time afterthe sacrifice. The disciples of this goddess are very numerous. KUroonamUyee^.—In some places the image of this goddess isset up and worshipped daily. At the festivals of Doorga, Kalee,& she is worshipped in a more splendid manner. Some personsmake vows to this goddess in times of distress, and manj- receivethe initiatory rites by which she becomes their guardian deity. p The fervent benefactress. 1 She who sits on the water-lily. This image is said to owe its rise to a vision at sea ascribed to Shreemfintti,a merchant, the particulars of which are related in the KSvee-ktlnkilnfi. The goddess who governs BrSmha, Viahnoo, and Shivfi. She who existed before the yoogas. The KALEE, ^iA^lislicci ay - ; . INFERIOR FORMS OF DOORGA—KALEE. 89 Sect. XVIlI.—Other Forms of Boorga, Tripoora, Twurita^ Nitya, Priistahinse, Juyu-doorga*, Shoolinee^, Miiha-lukslimee*, Sliree-vidya^ Tripoora-soonduree, Vunu-df^vei, CMndu-nayika, Pruchunda, Churidagra, Dhooma-vufcee, tJblmya, Sut5e°, Gouree, Pud ma*, Shuchee, M^dha, Savitreej Juya,Devu-sAia,Swiidha^,Swab a,Shautee,Toostee\Poostee,DhriteeSAfcmu-ddvta,Koolti-d^vta^j&c. &c. Vij-Sya, All these goddesses are worsliipped at the festivals of Doorga,as well as at other times, before the proper representative of a god,as water, the shalgramu, &c., but their images are not now made inBengal. Many persons receive the initiatory rites of these deities,and pay their devotions dailj^ to the particular goddess whom theyhave chosen as their
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