THE VEDIC DEITIES.
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In the “Adhyatma"[1] Rāmāyana,"[2] is a legend giving quite a different origin of Kāli; the object of the writer evidently being to enhance the glory of Sita, by showing that Kāli was but a form that she had assumed. On Rāma's return from the destruction of Rāvana, he was boasting of his prowess, when Sita smiled and said, “You rejoice because you have slain
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KALI.
with ten heads, but what would you say to a Rāvana with a thousand ?""Destroy him too,” said Rāma. Sita advised him to remain at home; but he collected his army of monkeys, and with his wife and brothers