. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . Krishna, the Favorite of the Country Lasses of Gokula.(Reproduced from Coleman.) it, and thus the war became una^-oidable. Then Dur3od-hana, the Kuru prince, and Arjuna, the main hero of thePandus, called on Krishna for succor and decided not to take an active part in the fighthimself, but left to Arjuna, whom he had seen first, the fied, Vyasa (the Homer or arranger of the poem, and its supposed author) triesto explain it allegorically by declaring that Draupadi is Lakshmi, and the
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . Krishna, the Favorite of the Country Lasses of Gokula.(Reproduced from Coleman.) it, and thus the war became una^-oidable. Then Dur3od-hana, the Kuru prince, and Arjuna, the main hero of thePandus, called on Krishna for succor and decided not to take an active part in the fighthimself, but left to Arjuna, whom he had seen first, the fied, Vyasa (the Homer or arranger of the poem, and its supposed author) triesto explain it allegorically by declaring that Draupadi is Lakshmi, and the fivePandu brothers represent five different forms of one and the same Indra. 90 THE HISTORY OK THE DEVIL. choice between his (Krishnar) co:pan3- as a mere ad-viser or his (Krishnas) army of a hnndred million war-. Krishnas Adventures. (Reproduced from Coleman.) riors. Arjuna chose Krishna himself, and left the hnn-dred million -warriors to his rivals, the Kurns. Thetwo armies met on the field of Knrnkshetra, near Delhi. BKAIIMAXISM AND HINDUISM. 91 During tlie battle, as we read in tlic Bhagavadgita,Krishna accompanies Arjuna as his charioteer and ex-plains to him the depth and breadth of the religiousphilosophy of the Hindus. The Pandus conquer theKurus, and Yudhishthira becomes king of sundry additional adventures the Pandus die andgo to heaven, where they find that rest and happinesswhich is unattainable on earth.
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