India And Its People Ancient And Modern With a View of the Sepoy Mutiny Embr
India And Its People Ancient And Modern With a View of the Sepoy Mutiny Embr
Hollis Read
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This god is often represented as bestowing a blessing, to remove the effects of which Yishnoo is obliged to become incarnate ; nay, these effects have not in some cases been removed till all the gods have been thrown into confusion, and all the elements seized and turned against the Creator, the Pre- server, and the Reproducer. "Wlien some giant, blessed by Brahmu, has destroyed the creation, Vishnoo and Shiva have been applied to ; but they have confessed they could do nothing for the totterin...g universe. " Reverence for the gods, especially among the poor, as might be expected, does not exceed their merits ; yet it is a shocking ' 182 INDIA AND ITS PEOPLE. fact, that language like the following should be used respecting what the Hindoos suppose to He the providence which governs the world. When it thunders awfullly, respectable Hindoos say, 'Oh ! the gods are giving us a bad day;' the lowest orders say, ' The rascally gods are dying. ' During a heavy rain, a woman of respectable caste frequently says, 'Let the gods perish!
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