. The gospel in South India : or the religious life, experience, and character of the Hindu Christians . —were held in acondition of oppressive slavery, prohibited evenfrom the use of the public roads; from near THE COSPEL in south IMDIA. approach to courts of justice or respectable houses,lest they should pollute the higher orders. Theywere sunk vastly lower than slaves in other landsby the caste notion of their essential and inherentreligious pollution. Besides the wor-ship of the ordinaryHindu gods by theBrahmans and otherhigh castes, whichhas been so fullydescribed in mostworks on India,Tr
. The gospel in South India : or the religious life, experience, and character of the Hindu Christians . —were held in acondition of oppressive slavery, prohibited evenfrom the use of the public roads; from near THE COSPEL in south IMDIA. approach to courts of justice or respectable houses,lest they should pollute the higher orders. Theywere sunk vastly lower than slaves in other landsby the caste notion of their essential and inherentreligious pollution. Besides the wor-ship of the ordinaryHindu gods by theBrahmans and otherhigh castes, whichhas been so fullydescribed in mostworks on India,Travancore is alsoa principal seat ofthe demon worshippractised by manyaboriginal races inAsia and strange andW^ terrible superstition,dishonouring to Godand degrading tomankind, varies somewhat in details amongstthe different classes of the population. Thoughnot a Brahmanic form of religion, the Sudras ofMalabar practise it to a great extent, along withthe adoration of the Hindu deities, Vishnu andShiva, and their subordinate gods. With themil? assumes the form of the worship of Kali or. KALI DESTROYING CHILDREN. THE MISSION IN SOUTH TRAVANCORE. 19 Bhagavathi, queen of the demons, Shastavu, ademon chief, and other local spirits of evil.
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