Show 2110 divinities orl ia tho the gates bates of the hindmo pantheon are never shut abut sir jolin john has haa tine cindy ay iy observed olm ovod tho the t rath ot the hie romark Is likely to lo v a a c burlou u aloud illus trillion in the results of tho the recant in the provinces und ot 0 to lu A novelty of the census vita a par lt ll ito la lU LUlIon for tile various 1 ol al mullets arid 0 a III h ir 1 il I r d wan letters from al uli it limit il d number nn in her of lia IA ill dibi ii it but 0 O fat far at a fice road via no havo have no BO such creed and it wo we ire are to apply that thai terra term sect to the heterogeneous u 9 groups of 0 worshippers wor shippers who call trems themselves olves aln 11 ina doos does we must mast materially modify it ordinary I 1 asa As d matter of tact fact the census ainu enumerators found that the ordinary hindmo did not know what was meant when he be was asked what nil his all ho could say was th particular god ho he worshipped wor shipped tho the con sequence Is that the census papers are or crowded with a vast number ot of tribal and local gods and delt deities ivia many of which have never hoen been heard of before and will in all probability never he be hoard heard of again sir alfred lyall was the first to show to in his asiatic studies how ready Is to all sorts of strings strange rods gods and demons and the recent census will allord afford a remarkable proof of tho the accuracy of the th 0 observation ti the gods gads of the present census however how evor vill 1 I 1 not be the gods of the next many will have disappeared and many hlll ill havo have appeared tor for the first time so that it if the sect classification Is kept up the census records will in process of time become a lumber room of dead and dIvInIties not without reason does docs the idol in the new savoy opera grumble at the th fickleness of 0 the iliadou worshippers wor shippers they have found another idol that onos put upon the thelt shelf Is a strain which might be chanted yearly as the procession of discarded demon demi gods end and dellied saints household gods tribal gods and local gods passes out of tho spacious pantheon into oblivion their places to bo be taken by others destined m ith the rolling of the years to meet a similar tale fam cr |