In a few cases original extracts have been made but, generally speaking, my work has been to collect and arrange translations ready to hand. This work does not profess to supply new translations of the Hindu Scriptures, nor to give very much information that is not already scattered through many other books. For some years I have been collecting materials with the intention of arranging them in such a way that any one without much labour might gain a good general idea of the names, character, and relationship of the principal deities of Hinduism. Since then two classical dictionaries of India have been published, one in Madras and one in London but though useful books of reference, they do not meet the want that this book is intended to supply. ON reaching India, one of my first inquiries was for a full and trustworthy account of the mythology of the Hindus but though I read various works in which some information of the kind was to be found, I sought in vain for a complete and systematic work on this subject. This text is in the public domain because it was published prior to 1923. Scanned, proofed and formatted at by John Bruno Hare, May 2009.
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