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Title: The World's Parliament of Religions : an illustrated and popular story of the World's First Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in connection with the Columbian exposition of 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902
Subjects: World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893 Religions
Publisher: Chicago : Parliament Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s showers to bless the earth. In other hymns the demonsare conceived as having stolen the reservoirs of water, and hidden them awayin the caverns of the mountains. But Indra pursues them thither, splits themountains with his thunderbolt, and sets them at liberty again. Such apowerful deity is also naturally worshiped as the god of battle. He isalways fighting and never fails to conquer in the end. Hence he is the idealhero whom the warrior trusts and adores. On him all men must call amid the battle;He, high-adored, alone has power to succor.The man who offers him prayers and libations.Him Indras arm helps forward in his goings. It is easy now to perceive that a literature, which abounds in such awealth of myth and imagery, must needs prove an inviting field for poeticgenius and lovers of art and beauty. With Indra other divinities of the air-realm are associated, as Vata, the god of the wind, who arises in the earlymorning to drink the Soma juice and lead in the Dawn; Rudras sons, the
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700 PARLIAMENT PAPERS: SIXTH DAY. Maruts, gods of the thunder-storm. If one will only take the trouble, saysKaegi, to project himself into the thought and life, the poetry and action,of a people and age which best display the first development of intellectualactivity in a race of people, he will find himself attracted by these hymnsin many ways—now by their childlike simplicity, now by the freshness ordelicacy of their imagery, and again by the boldness of their painting andtheir scope of fancy. Where in all the realm of lyric poetry can be foundcompositions more charming than the Vedic hymns to Aurora, the goddessof the Dawn ? She opens the gates of day, drives away darkness, clears apathway on the misty mountain tops, and sweeps along in glowing bright-ness, with her white steeds and beautiful chariot. All Nature springs tolife as she approaches, and beasts and birds and men go forth with joy. THE TRIPITAKA. The sacred scriptures of Buddhism comprise three immense collectionsknown

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