ABSTRACT
THE religion of the Rig Veda is well known. It L, preeminently the worship of Nature' in its most imposing and sublime-aspects. The sky which 'bends over all, the beautiful and blushing dawn which like a busy housewife wakes men from slumber and sends them to their work, the gorgeous tropical sun which vivifies the earth, the air which pervades the world, the fire which cheers anti e.rlightens us, and the violent stcrms which in India usher in those copious rains which fill the land with plenty,-these we....e the gods whom the· early Hindus loved to extol and to worship. ..inq often when an ancient Rishi sang the praises of any of the gods with devotion and fervour, he forgot that there was any other god besides; and his sublime hymn has the character and tne sublimity of a prayer to the one God of the universe.
