Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook

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Penguin, 1975 - Fiction - 358 pages
Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the mischievous child Krishna, alongside stories of the minor gods, demons, rivers and animals including boars, buffalo, serpents and monkeys. Immensely varied and bursting with colour and life, they demonstrate the Hindu belief in the limitless possibilities of the world - from the teeming miracles of creation to the origins of the incarnation of Death who eventually touches them all.
 

Contents

INDRA 1328
54
AGNI 2933
98
RUDRA AND SIVA 3446
117
DEVI THE GODDESS 6469
238
GODS AND DEMONS 7075
270
APPENDICES
301
Bibliographical Notes
310
91
326
THE EPIC MYTH OF THE TRIPLE CITY 37
333
Glossary and Index of Proper Names
339
RĀMA AND KṚṢŅA 5661
350
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