The study of mythology is the first stage and an indispensable rudiment to the study of the land and its culture. To penetrate to the heart of civilization one ought to begin with a knowledge of its gods. The present volume makes an attempt to decipher the mythology of Asia, an important pre-requisite to the understating of art, thought and literature of this land of great religious provinces, each with its own cosmology, Philosophy and mythology. The book is an ...