. The three presidencies of India: a history of the rise and progress of the British Indian possessions, from the earliest records to the present time. With an account of their government, religion, manners, customs, education, etc., etc. Illustrated by numerous engravings, and a map by Wyld . sias,or merchants ; and fi-om his feet, the SuJras, or husbandmen.^ Brahma, the creator, is now but a secondary deity amongst theHindoos, his worship being almost superseded by that of Vishnu andSiva. There are but few temples to him, and still fewer figures. Inthose which are yet to be seen, Ave find hi
. The three presidencies of India: a history of the rise and progress of the British Indian possessions, from the earliest records to the present time. With an account of their government, religion, manners, customs, education, etc., etc. Illustrated by numerous engravings, and a map by Wyld . sias,or merchants ; and fi-om his feet, the SuJras, or husbandmen.^ Brahma, the creator, is now but a secondary deity amongst theHindoos, his worship being almost superseded by that of Vishnu andSiva. There are but few temples to him, and still fewer figures. Inthose which are yet to be seen, Ave find him represented as a red orgolden-coloured figure, with four heads. He has also four arms, in oneof which he holds a spoon, in another a string of beads, in the third awater-jug, and in the fourth the sacred Vedas. Unlike the other personages of the triad, Brahma appears to havehad very few avatars or manifestations. His descendants were, how-ever, numeroiLS, and many of them were subsequently raised to therank of deities. Vishnu, the second person of the triad, is represented of a blackor blue colour. He is generally seen placed on a throne of his favouritelotus flower ; but sometimes he is to be found reclining on a leaf of thatflower, or on the many-headed serpent Ananta, or This deity has had nine avatars, and at the tenth it is said thedestruction of the world will take place. The ninth of these was hisincarnation as Buddha, the reformer of the Hindoo faith, or rather the Colemans Mytliology of the Hiodoos, p. iv. VISHNU AND SIVA. 403 founder of the Buddhist religion. The heaven of Vishnu is describedas being rich and beautiful beyond imagination. Eighty thousand milesin circumfeience, it is composed entirely of gold, with huge edifices ofprecious stones; and every luxurious adjunci: which the warm and fer-tile invention of oriental minds could picture. Siva, the destroyer, the supreme lord of all, vanquished only byMaha Kali, or Eternity, is usually represented o
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