Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . be most effi-cacious. Many devoteestake a strange ^=^^^- attitude andhold it by foiceof will untilthe freedomof the givenorgans is de-stroyed. Somewill hold up anarm straightabove the headfor days andweeks andmonths, until itbecomes wastedaway and rigidas bone. Otheis,by contortion,twist their mus-cles out of shapeuntil they are ii imore able to icturn to symme-try or performtheir office. Andso on and on /through an end-less var
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . be most effi-cacious. Many devoteestake a strange ^=^^^- attitude andhold it by foiceof will untilthe freedomof the givenorgans is de-stroyed. Somewill hold up anarm straightabove the headfor days andweeks andmonths, until itbecomes wastedaway and rigidas bone. Otheis,by contortion,twist their mus-cles out of shapeuntil they are ii imore able to icturn to symme-try or performtheir office. Andso on and on /through an end-less variet) oftortures and tor-ments self - in-flicted by a su-perstition whichadmits of no limitor palliation. Not only has the Brahmanical systemfallen into this degraded aspect; it hassunk to absolute immorality and inde-cency. Perhaps no single ceremony bet-ter illustrates the debasing level to which the national religion has descended thandoes the ceremony of Juggernaut. Thisis primarily the name of a City and annualtown of Bengal, on the ceremonial of northwest coast of the bay J^ss^^^*-of that name. The true word, however,is Jagannatha, meaning the lord of the. C\\ or JUGGER^\U1I bj \ dtKeiMlle from a ph ,ph world, which was the descriptive epi-thet of A^ishnu when he was incarnatedas Krishna. This gave the name to theBrahmanical temple, and finallj- to thetown. 674 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. Juggernaut became a city of principal street is for the raost partfilled on both sides with religious es-tablishments. At the further end of themain avenue, where it widens out torather grand proportions, is situated thefamous temple, most holy, perhaps, ofall the shrines of Hindustan. More thana million of pilgrims come annually tosay their prayers and make their offer-ings at this spot. Around the temple isa lofty inclosure of solid stone, six hun-dred and fifty feet square, covering anarea of nearly ten acres. In the easternwall is a great gate, through which thepilgrims ascend
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