. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . The Monkey King Sugriva FighTING. (Reproducedfrom Coleman.) BRAHMANISM AND HINDUISM. 85 with giants and demons, how the monkey kings, Lugrivaand Hanunian, became his allies, how Hanuman jumped. Vishnu and Shri-Lakshmi as Rama Chandra and Sita After Their HappyReunion. (Reproduced from Coleman.) over to Lanka, the island of Ceylon, to reconnoitre theenemys country, how the monkej-s built a bridge overthe strait by throwing stones into the water, how Rama 86 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVI


. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . The Monkey King Sugriva FighTING. (Reproducedfrom Coleman.) BRAHMANISM AND HINDUISM. 85 with giants and demons, how the monkey kings, Lugrivaand Hanunian, became his allies, how Hanuman jumped. Vishnu and Shri-Lakshmi as Rama Chandra and Sita After Their HappyReunion. (Reproduced from Coleman.) over to Lanka, the island of Ceylon, to reconnoitre theenemys country, how the monkej-s built a bridge overthe strait by throwing stones into the water, how Rama 86 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. pursued Ravana to Lanka, and finally how he vanquishedRavana and recovered his faithful wife Sita. Like the sixth avatar, the Rama Chandra avatarprobabl}^ contains historical reminiscences. It also re-sembles both the Trojan War and the Gudrun Saga,the epics of Western nations that relate the story of anabducted wife. The mythical part of all these storiesdescribes the wanderings of the sun god in search of hisconsort, the moon. In his eighth incarnation, the Krishna avatar, Vishnu has reached theideal man-god of theHindus. Kansa, calledKalankura (i. e., crane),the t^-rant of IMathura,receives the prophecy thatthe eighth son of his sis-ter, Devaki, will take histhrone. He therefore de-cides to kil


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