THE SNAKE GODDESS.

Manasa-devi, a woman whose craft raises her to be a Goddess.

LITERATURE OF THE EAST

VOLUME IX

INDIA AND BRAHMANISM

In Translations by

CHARLES R. LANMAN, LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit, Harvard Uni-
versity, editor of Harvard Oriental Series; Wm. D. Whitney, LL.D.,
former President of the American Philological Association and Profes-
sor of Sanskrit at Yale University; SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, K.C.I.E.;
SIR M. MONIER-WILLIAMS, K.C.I.E., former Professor of Sanskrit at
Oxford University; ROMESH CHUNDER DUTT, C.I.E. of the Royal
Asiatic Society; RALPH T. GRIFFITH, C.I.E., President of Benares
College, India; MANMUTHA DUTT, of the Royal Asiatic Society.

With a Brief Bibliography by

PROF. CHARLES R. LANMAN, LL.D.

With an Historical Survey and Descriptions by
PROF. CHARLES F. HORNE, PH.D.

PARKE, AUSTIN, AND LIPSCOMB, Inc.

NEW YORK

LONDON

"Let there be light."-GENESIS I, 3.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man."-MAX MÜLLER.