Sketches of the Mythology And Customs of the Hindoos
Sketches of the Mythology And Customs of the Hindoos
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The immenfe group of Hindoo gods enjoy immortality, which they are gifted with from drinking a beverage, called ( 3* ) called Amrut, and which feems to bear fome analogy to the nectar of Homer's deities. In their mythology, there is an ele- gant defcription of nine goddefTes, re- fembling in a great degree the mufes of the antients, in the nature of their pro- vinces. There is alfo, mofl pi&urefquely delineated, the God of Love, who has a variety of epithets, all fignificant of the unbounded fw...ay, which he pof- feffes over the hearts of men. His common names are Kaum and Mudden, and he is reprefented as a pleafmg youth, armed with a bow and five arrows, denoting the five fenfes, each of which weapon is baited with different qualities of the poifon, which is ( 33 ) is infufed by the communication of tke paflion of love. A curious picture was found at Tanjore, when the fort was captured, of Kaum riding on an elephant, whofe form was compofed of the figures of feven young women, which were en- twined together in fo ingenious and whimfical a manner, that they ex- hibited an exact fhape of that bulky animal.
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The immenfe group of Hindoo gods enjoy immortality, which they are gifted with from drinking a beverage, called ( 3* ) called Amrut, and which feems to bear fome analogy to the nectar of Homer's deities. In their mythology, there is an ele- gant defcription of nine goddefTes, re- fembling in a great degree the mufes of the antients, in the nature of their pro- vinces. There is alfo, mofl pi&urefquely delineated, the God of Love, who has a variety of epithets, all fignificant of the unbounded fw...ay, which he pof- feffes over the hearts of men. His common names are Kaum and Mudden, and he is reprefented as a pleafmg youth, armed with a bow and five arrows, denoting the five fenfes, each of which weapon is baited with different qualities of the poifon, which is ( 33 ) is infufed by the communication of tke paflion of love. A curious picture was found at Tanjore, when the fort was captured, of Kaum riding on an elephant, whofe form was compofed of the figures of feven young women, which were en- twined together in fo ingenious and whimfical a manner, that they ex- hibited an exact fhape of that bulky animal.
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