x83 •चामांद्र औदन । astute Brahmin priest fomenting eternal disunion by planting-distinctions of caste, of creed and of political government on the basis of Vedic revelation—the lawless brutality of the tall blonde Aryan towards the primitive dark-skinned, scrub-nosed children of the soil —the Kshatrya's star, like a huge comet brandished in the political sky, casting a pale glimmer over the land—the wily Brahmin priests jealous of Kshatrya ascendancy, entering into an unholy compact with the Non-Aryan Naga and Dashuya hordes, and adopting into the Hindu Pantheon the Asuric Gods of the latter, the trident bearing Mahadeva with troops of demons fleeting at his back or that frenzied Goddess of war Kali with her necklace of skulls—the Nor-Aryan Nagas and Dashuyas crouching in the jungles and dens like the fell beasts of prey—and in the foreground the figure of the half divine legislator Krishna, whom Bishnu, the Lord of the Universe, guides through mysterious visions and phantasms, unfurling, in the fulness of his destiny, the flag of the Universal religion of Baishnavism to hurl down the Brahmanic priesthood and their cruel vedic ritualism, and to establish in their place the kingdom of God in Mahabharat, -one vast Indian Empire, a realised universal human brotherhood, embracing Aryan and Non-Aryan in bonds of religious, social and political unity, a grand design, scenic pomp, an antique as well as modern significance like this what national epic can show 7 -
