These stories allow " people in every class, caste, and stratum of Hindu society, literate or illiterate [illiteracy is very high in India] [to be] at home in the same universe- (Earhart, p. 780). Needless to say, this process of thoroughly mythologizing the universe and continuing the oral tradition has been a major factor in bonding Hinduism together and permeating it through illiteracy, time, etc. ... There has been great effort to know the exact niche of everything in relation to "the great scheme of things [where] it belongs to a kind of being, separate from all other kinds of being, wit...

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