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Identifier: cyclopediauniver1950ridp (find matches)
Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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- peculiar to modernBrahmanism. One of the most wide-spread superstitions of the present dayis that relating to the Ganges. This is
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SACRIKICK lO l-HF, (JANCKS—ilrau-n bv Emile Bayard. 676 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. regarded as the sacred rivei of the coun-try. The belief extends, indeed, to thewhole s)rstem of streams, Worship of the Ganges and sac- nineteen or twenty m num-riflce thereto. ^^^^ ^^^^^j^j^ descend from the spurs of the Himalayas and combinetheir waters in the principal river. Per-haps the superstition is very ancient.The Nile was worshiped in like manner.A great and tractable river in a primi-tive country thickly peopled m.ust alwayshave been regarded as an incalculableblessing. In an epoch of the nature worship itis natural that the adoring instincts ofmen should turn to the visible source oftheir blessings. It may be thus that asearly as the composition of the Veda theGanges was looked upon and adored.At the present time, and for some cen-turies in the past, the waters of the greatstream are regarded as holy. They aredipped up and carried into all parts ofIndia that they may contribute a purify- in

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