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Temple-and-Image Worship in Hinduism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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1. The use of images in Hindu temples and in Hindu homes is, perhaps, not absolutely universal to-day, as we shall see; but the non-conforming minority, if it still exists, is exceedingly minute. In every part of India temples and images may be seen; and the religious life of all classes of the people depends very largely on their use.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1928

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References

page 17 note 1 p. 128.

page 17 note 2 p. 5.

page 17 note 3 The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda, 31

page 19 note 1 iv, 5–6; v, 2.

page 20 note 1 See Arthur Avalon, Tantra of the Great Liberation, xcvii; my Crown of Hinduism, 313.

page 20 note 2 See my Outline of the Religious Literature of India, 293.

page 20 note 3 Aitareya, ii, 1; Bṛihadāranyaka, iii, 9, 10; Kaushītaki, i, 3.

page 20 note 4 Moulton, , Early Zoroastrianism, 52, 195, 391Google Scholar.

page 21 note 1 Cf. Ranade, , Religious and Social Reform, 185Google Scholar.

page 21 note 2 p. 195.

page 21 note 3 The words in use proclaim the gulf between the two systems:—

page 22 note 1 See Dāsa, Dasyu, and Śūdra in the Vedic Index.