Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c28.s1.t2.82

v2.c28.s1.t2.82

¹ The queen of heaven. ² [Kunti escaped the fire and protected the children of Mādri, the other wife of Pāndu, who was burnt with him.] ³ Hari Krishna is the mediator and preserver of the Hindu Triad ; his name alone is invoked in funeral rites (see p. 621). The following extract from Dr. Wilkins’ translation of the Gīta will best disclose his attributes :—Krishna speaks : “I am the journey of the good ; the comforter ; the creator ; the witness ; the resting-place ; the asylum ; and the friend. I am generation and dissolution ; the place where all things are deposited, and the inexhaustible soul of all nature. I am death and immortality ; I am never-failing time ; the preserver, whose face is turned on all sides. I am all grasping death ; and I am the resurrection of those who are about to die.” ⁴ A name of Durga, the Hindu Juno. ⁵ The sacred lake in Tibet. [See C. A. Sherring, Western Tibet and the British Borderlands, 259 ff.]