The Ashes of a God (Indian Stories of F.W.Bain)
Publisher: Duckworth Publishing
Published: May 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781842930014
Subjects: Hinduism; Religion - World Religions; Fiction; Hinduism - General; Religion / Hinduism; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
First sentence: Far away in the northern quarter, half-hidden in Himalaya's shaggy sides, there lies a holy bathing-place and favoured haunt of Hara, where Ganga leaps down through a rocky chasm in the Lord of Hills, and rushes out into the plain, white as it were with foamy laughter at the thought of her coming union with Yamuna and the sea.