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* - همه جا s Indian Scriptures translated in the present and former కys) that the ancient Hindu religion, as founded on the Indian Scriptures, " recognises but one God.” The Vedas by H. T. Colebrooke, Asiatic Researches Vol. 8, page 385. * & - * “The real doctrine of the whole Indian Scripture is the unity of the Deity in whom the universe is comprehended.” Ibid, page 474. “From the preceding remarks it will perhaps appear that the Hindus, admitting three divine hypostases and several inferior deities, have still always maintained the unity of God; and that though they neither erect temples nor address any external worship to him they nevertheless believe that he ought to be adored mentally and with devout abstraction.” Ancient and Hindu Mythology by Lieutenant-Colonel Vans Kennedy. Page 179. “It must necessarily follow that every Hindu, who is in the least acquainted with the principles of his religion, must in reality acknowledge and worship God in unity. Men, however, are born with different capacities and it is therefore necessary (as the Brahmans maintain) that religious instruction should be adapted to the powers of comprehension of each individual; hence a succession of heavens, gradation of deities, and even their sensible representation by images, are all considered to be lawful means for existing and promoting piety and devotion. The man who might be capable of comprehending the existence and divine nature of an invisible and immaterial Being might easily understand the avatars of Vishnu; and from being made sensible of the superhuman powers manifested in them, might be led to raise his ideas still higher, and to form correct motions of Deity. Placed at the bottom of a flight of steps, no person can at once spriສ? to the top, but must ascend gradually from step to step; and it is in the same manner that the feeble powers of man can only by intermediate helps, attain the knowledge of the real nature of (iod. But such means being requisite for dispelling the ignorance