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The subject of our mythology is very important because there is not a branch of our ancient knowledge into which mythology has not entered in some shape or other. In ancient Hindu mythology solar, lunar and astral myths, coupled with parables, puns, riddles and paradoxes, play an important part and contain in most stories esoteric or hidden vedantic meanings.
In approaching God, all kinds of moods of mind seem to have been employed-the awfully serene and circumspect, the most buoyant and confiding, the most fearless, familiar and friendly, the most ardently loving, and sometimes the most playfully humourous, jovial and funny; and since the inner meaning was all right, no fear whatever stood in the way of even Para-Brahman being outwardly subjected to all the paradoxes derived from the pranks of Sabda-Brahman-the pranks of words in puns and puzzles. To teach by means of riddles and paradoxes has the advantage of exercising the mind of the enquirer, and when he solves them and finds out the hidden truth, he would cherish it as self-acquired wealth. For ages there seems to have been a school of poets who composed stories containing such riddles, and their esoteric meaning were sufficiently we known to their cotemporaries and successors. But a time came when they were forgotten and only the outer meanings left. There was never any immorality of the Gods, nor of the Rishis spoken of in our Puranas, and the laws of conduct maintained in the different Sakhas were rigorously enforced. If anybody asked, how is it Indra did so and so and this or that Rishi of old did so and so, he was told that those were extraordinary persons and that all those days were gone.
It was only rarely that Pandits tried to solve the riddles as Kumarila has done in the case of the so-called adultery of Indra and the daughter-incest of Prajapati. The stories preserved in our old sacred literature appear very hoaryheaded, but in that old garb we should not fail to detect the jovial punner and riddler and play with him very freely. Unless we do so, he will not reveal his true nature.
In addition to explaining several Vedic stories, the author has brought many texts of the Vedas and Upanishads to bear upon the Puranic stories to show that they have grown from those texts and that they should not be rejected as the aberrations of a fallen age but accepted as the direct descendants of the Upanishads which are so much admired.
The learned author discusses in detail Urvasi and Pururavas; Vasishtha, Visvamitra and Agastya; Atri; Trita and the Wolf; The Dog and the CFows; The Maruts, Diti and Aditi; The Asvins; Brahma-Jaya; Ahalya; Manduki or Bheki; Anti-Mandavya; Mandhata; Suparna; Sukhra, Kaka, Yayati; Sibi; Jantu; The Seven Rishis and the Tree of Life; The Pravargya; Upasad; Asura Vrika or The Bhasma; The Creation, etc.
Condition of the book: Usable; but the pages and cover look old
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