VlSilNOO. 
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Among tlie numerous Hindoo deities, those whose images and 
WQrship are most strongly marked with impurity are Shivu,,the Bae- 
chusor Vulcan of the Hindoos ; Krishnoo, resembling- Apollo ;,aiKl Jug- 
gernaut, which is a form of the annexed powerful divinity, 
ViSKNOO. 
The services offered to Shivu resemble in many particulars the rites 
of Bacchus, and are of a nature too abominably to be described. 
During the festival of Krishnu, the utmost licentiousness prevails ; 
and his service principally consists in the celebration of amorous 
intrigues that are ascribed to him. Obscenity and blood are the 
attendants on Juggernaut. The daily services of their gods tend only 
to lewdness and cruelty. The effect of such a religion on the minds 
of the people is too obvious toVequire detail. Hence chastity is a 
virtue unknown in Hindoostan. The scenes that are constantly pre- 
sented to the multitude in the ordinary course of their worship, so 
debase and polbite their minds, that the grossest sensualities are their 
delight in this world, and a more perfect gratification of them is all 
they hope for in a future state of being. Future happiness is declared 
to consist entirely of sensual enjoyment. To feast on delicious viands, 
to dwell in palaces of gold, ornamented with precious stones, to rest 
on magnificent beds, and to gratify every sensual desire, are things, 
in the enjoyment of which a Hindoo concentrates the chief happiness 
of his heaven. 
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