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Identifier: historyofworldsu02helm (find matches)
Title: The history of the world; a survey of a man's record
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Helmolt, Hans F. (Hans Ferdinand), 1865-1929 Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
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refore, demands no great space or building where the con-gregation may meet together before their god; the sanctuary proper is never morethan a small shrine or an unimportant chapel with the symbol or image of the god.The temples, which have increased to enormous size, especially in Southern India,owe their dimensions to the addition of suliordinate rooms such as pilgrim halls,side galleries (see the plate, Colonnade^ in the Interior of the Hindu Temple inthe Island of RameSvaram ), tanks surrounded by steps, etc. Divine worship is carried on under tliree main different forms. Vishnu of allthe supreme gods is most like man in shape. Consequently his statue is tended In the case of Siva this sign usually consists of three horizontal .strokes of white, Vishnu being desig-nated liy a design like a tuning-fork. Sec also the upper half of the plate, Early Indian Painting andArchitecture, p. 418. * Seven hundred feet long; erected in the eleventh to twelfth century, according to Fergusson.
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KXlI.ANATInX oV llIK Il.ATK (»\i:i;LKAF The island of Itiuufswanuu (Riiiuissdam), ;i low samly piuci- ul laml, lies ill llie (iull ulMiuiiir, between hulia anil Cevlon. in the iiurllieni jiart of it stands one of the most si)lenclidnwnnnients ol Dravidian aivhitectuiv, the immense Hindu temple with its lofty towers, theinterior of which is traversed by gloomy pillareil corriilors. Kor centuries the shrine has Ijeenvisited throughout the year by thousands of pilgrims, and the rich offerings made by these ))rovidea livelihood for the inhabilauts of the island, wlio are chietly l^.ralinians. in^ia-) HISTORY OF THE WORLD 413 like a human being by priests specially appointed for the purpose. The worship ofhis image may be compared to the playing of a small child with its doll, and theofferings made to him are those things which delight the Hindu heart, — rice, coraco,pastry, and flowers or decorations of pearls and precious stones. Siva, on the otherhand, the lofty and often terrible

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