| Description |
5-141 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Religion and history -- Early deities -- Vedic deities -- Developments of the Brahmanic age -- Time and the creation of the universe -- Creation of man and of death -- Pantheism and polytheism -- Hindu mythology -- The Hindu triad -- The Vedic gods in Hinduism -- New gods -- Goddesses -- Animal deities -- Other mythological animals -- Mountains, rivers and pools as deities -- Enemies of the gods -- Enemies of men -- Other spirits -- Troops of minor deities -- Demi-gods and rishis -- The Mahabharata -- Buddhist mythology -- Buddhist cosmology and the Buddhist pantheon -- Jain mythology |
| Notes |
Illus. on endpapers |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 140 |
| Subject |
Hindu mythology.
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Mythology, Indic.
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| LC no. |
67100985 |
| ISBN |
0600023699 |
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