Anthropogenesis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...says Parasara. Likewise with Pushkara and all others. the country inhabited by beings who live ten thousand years, who are free from sickness or failing; where there is neither virtue nor vice, caste or laws, for these men are "of the same nature as the Gods."870 Wilford is inclined to see Meru in Mount Atlas, and locates there also the Loka-lokas. Now Meru, we are told, which is the Svar-loka, the abode of Brahma, of Vishnu, and the Olympus of Indian exoteric religions, is described geographically as " passing through the middle of the earth-globe, and protruding on either side.871 On its upper station are the gods, on the nether (or South pole) is the abode of demons (hells). How can then Meru be Mount Atlas? Besides which, Taradaitya, a demon, cannot be placed on the seventh zone if the latter is identified with the "white" Island, which is Sveta-dvipa, for reasons given in the foot-note.872 Wilford accuses the modern Brahmans "of having jumbled them (islands and countries) all together";878 but he jumbled them still more. He believes that as the Brahmanda and Vayu Puranas divide the old continent into seven dvipas, said to be surrounded by a vast ocean, beyond which lie the regions and mountains of Atala,874 hence "most probably the Greeks divided the nation of Atlantis, which, as it could not be found after having once been discovered, they conceived to have been destroyed by some shock of nature." Finding certain difficulties in believing that the Egyptian priests, Plato, and even Homer, had all built their notions of Atlantis on Atala--a nether region located at the Southern pole--we prefer holding to the statements given in the secret books. We believe in the seven "continents," four of which ha...