# Hindu gods and heroes

Author: Barnett, Lionel D. (Lionel David), 1871-1960

Genre: Hinduism

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22885

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Hindu+gods+and+heroes+Barnett&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Let us imagine we are in a village of an Aryan tribe in the Eastern Panjab something more than thirty centuries ago. It is made up of a few large huts, round which cluster smaller ones, all of them rudely built, mostly of bamboo; in the other larger ones dwell the heads of families, while the smaller ones shelter their kinsfolk and followers, for this is a patriarchal world, and the housefather gives the law to his household. The people are mostly a comely folk, tall and clean-limbed, and rather fair of skin, with well-cut features and straight noses; but among them are not a few squat and ugly men and women, flat-nosed and nearly black in colour, who were once the free dwellers in this l...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hindu-gods-and-heroes-22885/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hindu-gods-and-heroes-22885/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hindu-gods-and-heroes-22885/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hindu-gods-and-heroes-22885/chapters/2/index.md)