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The following pages are taken from the Forlong Bequest lectures which I delivered in March last at the School of Oriental Studies. Owing to exigencies of space, much of what I then said has been omitted here, especially with regard to the worship of Siva; but enough remains to make clear my general view, which is that the religion of the Aryans of India was essentially a worship of spirits--sometimes spirits of real persons, sometimes imaginary spirits--and that, although in early days it provisionally found room for personifications of natural forces, it could not digest them into Great Gods, and therefore they have either disappeared. | Hindu Gods And Heroes by Lionel D. Barnett 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III Hindu Gods And Heroes by Lionel D. Barnett The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hindu Gods And Heroes by Lionel D. Barnett This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India Author Lionel D. Barnett Release Date October 4 2007 EBook 22885 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HINDU GODS AND HEROES Produced by Thierry Alberto Sankar Viswanathan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http The Wisdom of the East Series Hindu Gods And Heroes by Lionel D. Barnett EDITED BY 2 L. CRANMER-BYNG Dr. S. A. KAPADIA WISDOM OF THE EAST HINDU GODS AND HEROES STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE RELIGION OF INDIA BY LIONEL D. BARNETT . LITT PREFACE The following pages are taken from the Forlong Bequest lectures which I delivered in March last at the School of Oriental Studies. Owing to exigencies of space much of what I then said has been omitted here especially with regard to the worship of Siva but enough remains to make clear my general view which is that the religion of the Aryans of India was essentially a worship of spirits--sometimes spirits of real persons sometimes imaginary spirits--and that although in early days it provisionally found room for personifications of natural forces it could not digest them into Great Gods and therefore they have either disappeared or if surviving remain as mere Struldbrugs. Thus I am a heretic in relation to both the Solar Theory and the Vegetation Theory as everyone must be who takes the trouble to study Hindu nature without prejudice. L. D. B. May 29 1922. CONTENTS I. THE VEDIC AGE Popular Religion p. 9--Rig-veda and priestly .

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