Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus c5.54

c5.54

A long series of sectaries then ensues, of a more orthodex description, and who only err in claiming primeval and pre-eminent honors for the objects of their adoration—none of these are to be found ; and, although, to a certain extent, the places of some of them may be supplied by the local deities of the villagers, and by the admission of others to a participatiom in the worship paid to the presiding deities of each sect,