The Kingdom in India, its progress and its promise . share of family affairs, andwhen they had not yet fallen into idolatry, super-stition, and consequent degradation. After our ancestors had migrated into Europe, theother branch of the Aryan family, passing throughthe Himalaya Mountains, migrated down upon thenorthern provinces of India, and, conquering them,held them under their sway for a time. But, de-termining not to go on conquering, they scatteredthemselves all through the peninsula of India, not asmilitary conquerors but as priests and teachers,introducing their religious system, Hindu
The Kingdom in India, its progress and its promise . share of family affairs, andwhen they had not yet fallen into idolatry, super-stition, and consequent degradation. After our ancestors had migrated into Europe, theother branch of the Aryan family, passing throughthe Himalaya Mountains, migrated down upon thenorthern provinces of India, and, conquering them,held them under their sway for a time. But, de-termining not to go on conquering, they scatteredthemselves all through the peninsula of India, not asmilitary conquerors but as priests and teachers,introducing their religious system, Hinduism orBrahmanism, all through India among the forty ormore distinct languages and peoples then inhabitingthat land, inducing them all to embrace their religioussystem. But during this migration over into India,and before they had gone on downward into thepeninsula, a second series of religious books wasevolved, known as the Shdstras and the Purdnas,which, though theoretically of secondary authority,in time took the place of and in effect buried the. en 8 O g E e! — c o >- I i « il An Essential Factor in India 145 Vedas, so that the Vedas have hardly been knownthrough the last 2,000 years, not known at all to thepeople, and only partially known to the Brahmanpriests. These later books were those in which was firstinculcated the idea of the Hindu triad, Brahma,Vishnu, and Siva; Brahma the creator, Vishnu thepreserver, and Siva the destroyer, of all first introduced the millions of subordinatedeities, ranged under the headship of the differentmembers of the triad. They also first introducedidolatry and the division of all the people of Indiainto castes. They first taught that there weredifferent creations, the Brahmans being created fromthe brain of Brahma, a separate creation of holierbeings, and the other castes created one after another,each less in dignity as well as in purity and inworth. Thus did caste and polytheism and idolatry, andthe dethronement and th
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