. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. e, he is known in the mountainousparts of India. He is a great favorite with the common peo-ple. He is generally represented with only one head ; thenumber of his hands varies from four to thirty-two. Roundhis neck there are strung a number of human skulls. Hishat is the skin of the tiger or elephant. His wife, Parvaty, isthe goddes
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. e, he is known in the mountainousparts of India. He is a great favorite with the common peo-ple. He is generally represented with only one head ; thenumber of his hands varies from four to thirty-two. Roundhis neck there are strung a number of human skulls. Hishat is the skin of the tiger or elephant. His wife, Parvaty, isthe goddess of time and the punisher of evil-doers. Besides these great deities, there are a number of inferiorones, the principal of whom are those who preside overdeath and hell; the gods of Are, of medicine, of the wind,and of the atmosphere. Ganesa, whom Sir William Jonescompares to Janus, is invoked the first, by the Brahmins, inall sacrifices. His name, and that of Seraswatee, appear atthe beginning of all writings; and his statue is placed onroads, and at the boundaries of villages. | There are twogreat subordinate sects among the Hindoos: the worship-pers of Vishnu, and those of Siva. Formerly the worshipof the former appears to have predominated on the Coro-. yiEW OF XHE GREAT BOSQUE ON XHE HOOGIILV, NEAi* CALCUTTA. OBJECTS OF WORSHIP. 135 mandel coast, while on the opposite coast, especially in theneighborhood of Bombay, that of Siva prevailed. The fol-lowers of Vishnu distinguished themselves by painting theirfaces with a horizontal line; the followers of Siva draw aperpendicular line. The gopee chunden, a white clay, takenfrom a holy tank near Positra in Guzerat, and chalk fromthe vicinity of the celebrated temple of Dwaraos, in thesame province, are used for this purpose. There is, how-ever, very little difference in point of religion between theseor any other Hindoo sects^ Vishnu is believed to haveundergone nine avatars, or incarnations; the most celebratedis the eighth, w
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