In other times Ganga, the daughter of the King of Snows, known for her independent and capricious nature, lived in the celestial regions. 54 pages..
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Ours is not a scholarly venture but an attempt to suggest through certain stories, told in as living and simple a language as possible, a key to understanding the culture and genius of India.
For the Greek spirit the light of the sun is its natural atmosphere, but for the ancient Indian spirit the sun is a golden veil that hides wonders that it desires ardently to possess.
It is a mentality that sees the field of human action as always surrounded and influenced by other forces that one could qualify as cosmic in nature.
This characteristic is not the fruit of a labored aestheticism, but is the sign of a mentality that always tries to describe terrestrial life not in outer terms, but in terms of what it hides.
Today\'s mind is at times taken aback by the superimposition of different worlds in the old Indian stories.
This series, Tales and Legends of India, was originally started with the aim of providing the modern reader with a glimpse of the fascinating, but infinitely complex world of Indian sensibility.
To reconcile heaven and earth and inundate with light the most sombre recesses of our earth, cleanse our wounded humanity in the soothing and regenerating waters of redemption, is perhaps one of the oldest dreams of humanity...
This divine river had its source in Vishnu\'s big toe and from there flowed forth to water the different Paradises, bestowing on them richness and fertility.
In other times Ganga, the daughter of the King of Snows, known for her independent and capricious nature, lived in the celestial regions
