to Europe, in the form of the prayer-wheels of Tibet, is not wholly without parallels in the West. The only difference is, that the Hindoos are a very logical people, and carry the absurd to its extreme.
23
The wife of the sage Gautama, with whom Indra had an intrigue that covered him with shame, in more ways than one.
24
Chaturmukha.
25
i. e. Maheshwara himself, who burned Love with fire from his eye.
26
Max Müller, to whom students of the Rig-Weda owe so much, was nevertheless essentially mistaken in saying that the word weda means knowledge. It does not mean knowledge, in our sense of the word, scientific, Baconian, Aristotelian; an idea quite alien to that of the old hotris. By weda they meant magical knowledge, spells; which being sung or muttered had power to compel the deities: thus the Brahman who possessed the "knowledge" (in the phrase of the Brahmanas, yah ewam weda) was the master of the world.
27
i. e. the dark half of the lunar month.
28
There is a pun in her name, which as applied to the moon, means a store of digits, but also signifies an ocean of wiles.
to Europe, in the form of the prayer-wheels of Tibet, is not wholly without parallels in the West. The only difference is, that the Hindoos are a very logical people, and carry the absurd to its extreme.
