What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is (14579390579)
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Title: What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Rawson, Albert L. (Albert Leighton), 1829-1902 Hagar, George J. (George Jotham), 1847-1921
Subjects: Religions
Publisher: New York, Gay Brothers & company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho
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wl-edged Vishnu as creator of the fourteen worlds, and fatherof truth, etc. The tyrant, highly incensed, treated this littlemartyr to the Brahmins faith very inhumanly, and wasgoing to knock him down with his staff, when the child es-caped the blow, by hiding himself behind a pillar, which re-ceived the stroke, and immediately split in two, when lo ! adreadful monster issued out of it. Vishnu had assumed thatshape purposely to chastise the insolence of this tyrant.The metamorphosed god seized the giant by the middle, andtore him to pieces. In the time that Mavaly governed the world—i. e., duringthe golden age of the Indians, there was a wonderful profu-sion of all things, so that no one would work; no subordi-nation was to be seen, everything was in common, and aman needed only put forth his hand to take whatever hewanted. Vishnu, desirous of putting a stop to a circum-stance which might be attended with very ill consequences,resolved therefore to dethrone Mavaly, and to bring want,
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