Word: vishnu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Royal Prospects. The King's prospects are better than his predecessors'. For more than a century the Kings of Nepal, whose subjects believe them to be the reincarnation of the god Vishnu, were virtual prisoners of their Prime Ministers, whose usurped power was handed down through the Rana family for generation after generation. A revolution sparked by neighboring India in 1950 toppled the Ranas and restored the Kings, under the benevolent protection of Jawaharlal Nehru, who needs mountainous Nepal as a buffer against Communist China...
...Krishna's scriptures, the wives washed their husbands' feet and drank a few drops of the washing water. They made floral offerings to their husbands and walked respectfully round them. They laid their heads on their husbands' feet and prayed: "You are Brahma [Creator], You are Vishnu [Preserver], You are Maheswara [Destroyer], You are my god. If I have committed any sin, my beloved husband and lord, forgive me, forgive me." In token of forgiveness, the husbands offered flowers to their wives...
...four-armed idol of Lord Venkateshwara (one of Vishnu's aliases) lives in a mammoth temple atop a 2,500-ft.-high hill at Tirupati in South India. In the temple court stands a big metal receptacle known as a hundi; into it pilgrims drop offerings of jewelry, money and gold...
...mythology of India, the Himalaya is the home of the gods. Shiva and Vishnu wander through the everlasting snows on the ridge of the world. Thus, when European expeditions trail off into the mountains of Nepal, Buddhist peasants assume that the strangers are going to look for heaven. Last week the film record of the two latest Himalayan expeditions, put on public view, showed heaven and hell interfused in some of the most terrifyingly beautiful pictures ever to move across a screen...
...Americans and 40 Britons) had labored for five years without a day's loss in strikes, to build the factory. It was designed by the Chemical Construction Corp. of New York, a private American firm which had, in the words of India's Works Minister Narhar Vishnu Gadgil, rendered services "far beyond the narrow terms of the contracts." Scores of Indians had been sent to the U.S. and Britain for training, and could now run the plant with a minimum of foreign help. Capacity: 350,000 tons of fertilizer a year, enough to produce an extra...