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Story of an Emigrant.
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animals seemed to understand what their drivers said. If a
very big loo- could not be moved in the usual manner he
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would roll it with his feet or shove it with his head, or even
put a chain around it and pull it along, and all this at the
command of the driver who remained sitting on the head of
the animal.
On April 25 I again embarked, this time on the steamer
Asia, sailing across the Bay of Bengal, and arrived on the
first day of May at the
seaport, Bimlipatam, on
the Madras coast. It
was a pleasant city of
white houses, and
situated at the foot of a high
volcano. Here I saw for
the first time the
notorious car of Juggernaut, in
which the image of the
god is dragged through
the streets. The car is
of stupendous size, and
rests on sixteen wheels.
Thousands of pilgrims
followed the car, and
formerly many of the
worshipers used to
throw themselves tinder
the wheels in order to be crushed to death; but this
barbaric custom has been prohibited by the English
government. The idol of Juggernaut is regarded as very sacred,
for according to tradition it contains a bone of Krishna,
the Hindoo Apollo, one of the ten incarnations 01*
manifestations of the god Vishnu. This relic worship, which is otherwise
unknown to the orthodox Hindoo faith, is a remnant of
THE CAR OF JUGGERNAUT.
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