. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . pv^r and iuduccd Dhritarashtra Musee Guimet.) ?,? •^ to divide the kingdom betweenhis sons, the Kurus, and his nephews, the Pandus; butat a festival, held at Hastinapur, Yudhishthira, the chief *The Pandus are also called Pandavas, and the Kurus Kamavas. f That the five Pandus held Draupadi in common as their wife, proves the highantiquity of the story. Polyandry was apparently a practice not uncommon in an-cient times. It prevails still to-day among the less cultured hill tribes. But beingat variance
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . pv^r and iuduccd Dhritarashtra Musee Guimet.) ?,? •^ to divide the kingdom betweenhis sons, the Kurus, and his nephews, the Pandus; butat a festival, held at Hastinapur, Yudhishthira, the chief *The Pandus are also called Pandavas, and the Kurus Kamavas. f That the five Pandus held Draupadi in common as their wife, proves the highantiquity of the story. Polyandry was apparently a practice not uncommon in an-cient times. It prevails still to-day among the less cultured hill tribes. But beingat variance with the Aryan customs of the age in which the Mahabharata was versi- BRAHMANISM AND HINDUISM. 89 of the Pandus, staked in a game of dice his kingdom, allhis possessions, and Draupadi herself, and lost every-thing. The Knrns promised their cousins to return theirshare of the kingdom after thirteen years, if they wouldlive twelve years with Draupadi in the forest and remainanother year in exile; but when this period had elapsedthe Kurus refused to give up the country or any part of. 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-
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