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...their last flings. The occasion was the splendid wedding of 19-year-old Prince Karam Singh, heir to the Maharaja of Kashmir, and 16-year-old Princess Yashorajya Lakshmi, doe-eyed granddaughter of the hereditary Premier of Nepal (see cut). The wedding was carried out according to ancient Vedic rites, and lasted all day. In the evening the bride's father gave a huge reception on the brightly lit grounds of his mansion, served rare pates, caviar and native delicacies. Republican India will not see many more such shows...
...blue Jumna, and the Saraswati, which, according to Hindu legend, wells up from underground. At the Triveni Sangam (Meeting of the Three Rivers) last week, a tumultuous tent city had grown up, peopled by 3,000,000 Hindus. By thousands of fires, breech-clouted sadhus (holy men) chanted Vedic hymns. Around the clock a clangor of raucous songs mingled with hymns, flutes with elephant bells, caterwauls with the keening of sacred recitations. The millions had come for the religious festival of Ardh Kumbh Mela, to revel and to bathe where the sacred rivers meet...
...revered Indian scholar and Nationalist, champion of orthodox Hinduism; in New Delhi. A former president of India's Congress Party, longtime friend of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he helped to found and was the guiding spirit of famed Benares Hindu University, which has become the center of the ancient Vedic (Hindu) culture...
...ordeal drew to its close, Gandhi had the Koran and Vedic hymns and verses from the Gita read to him. He also called for his favorite hymn (by British Author Isaac Watts): When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. Each day he was massaged and cared for as tenderly as an incubator baby. Around his scrawny shoulders was a red and black checked homespun blanket. On the wall of his small, high-ceilinged room in the Aga Khan's gruesomely Victorian Palace in Poona was a Hindu calendar with the motto: "O Lord...
...attempt to study the government or the economic and social conditions, past or present, of the Far Eastern countries. One small exception at least must be made. Tucked away among the announcements of the Divinity School appeared these two sentences: "(1. Comparative Study of Religions, particularly the Vedic Religion, Hindu philosophies, Buddhism, Mazdaism, and the Chinese Religions.) Omitted in 1900-01." If no college graduate was actually ignorant of the existence of the less favored continents, the credit probably belonged to his grammar school class in geography. His college had given him an excellent excuse to believe that those regions...