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What people are saying - Write a reviewUser Review - Flag as inappropriate This work is probably the earliest ethnographic account of religion at the Indian grassroots. A missionary product nonetheless but an important contribution to Indian Orientalist project. Related booksCommon terms and phrasesaccording adored adorned Agni arms Asuras became Bhadrakali Bhumidevi body Brahmans called caste celebrated celestial ceremonies Chap chapter Christian creatures Daksha death deity demonolatry demons Devas devils devotees divine earth elephant eternal evil existence father festival flowers Ganga giant give goddess gods Gramadevatas Gurus hands Harischandra head heathen wrote heaven Hindus holy honour incarnation Indra Isvara Jainas Jamadagni king Krishna Lakshmi Linga lord Manmatha Mantras mighty moon names offerings origin pagodas Parabaravastu Parvati person Pidari praise prayer priest Puja Rama Ravana regards regent religion represented Rishis rites Rudra sacred sacrifice sage Saivas Sakti Sanscrit Sarasvati severe penance Shanars Sita Siva Siva's soul Southern India spirit stories Subhramanya Sunahsepha supposed Supreme Svarga Tamil temples thee things thou art unto Urvasi Vaishnavas various Varuna Vasishtha Vedas Vighnesvara Virabhadra Vishnu Purana Visvamitra wears whilst wife wives worship Ziegenbalg's Popular passagesPage 127 - For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Page 12 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Page 191 - For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised : he is to be feared above all gods. Page 12 - Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Page 10 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. Page 127 - O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ! Or, who hath been his counsellor ? Or, who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again ? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things ; to whom be glory for ever. Amen. Page 127 - God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. 0 the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God ! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been his counsellor ? or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again ! For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things : to whom be glory for ever. Amen. Page 198 - Wise and mighty are the works of Him who stemmed asunder the wide firmaments ; He lifted on high the bright and glorious heaven ; He stretched out apart the starry sky and the earth. Page 199 - He, the upholder of order, Varuna, sits down among his people; he, the wise, sits there to govern. Page 198 - Varuna, that thou wishest to destroy thy friend, who always praises thee ? Tell me, thou unconquerable lord, and I will quickly turn to thee with praise, freed from sin. References from web pagesTHE PREHISTORY OF ORIENTALISM: COLONIALISM AND THE TEXTUAL BASIS ... JSTOR: Expel the Lover, Recover the Wife: Symbolic Analysis of a ... Bibliographic information
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