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The Litchfield County Post
Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut
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In Vizagapatam, a seaport town 500 miles southwest of Calcutta, the Juggernaut car festival did not occur last year, with its images offered to missionaries for ten pagodas, signaling a decline in public esteem for Hinduism; Brahmins support it mainly for self-interest despite feeling inferior in arguments against Christianity.
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Vizagapatam.—(A seaport town 500 miles S. W. of Calcutta.) The car of Juggernaut at Vizagapatam, which seems to have fallen greatly in public estimation, did not make its appearance last year: its three images were offered to the missionaries for ten pagodas. The Brahmins, indeed, appear to support Hindooism merely to support themselves; since, in other respects, they are as indifferent to its interests as they are ignorant of it as a system: they evidently feel their inferiority in argument with the missionaries, and stand confounded at the poverty of their dogmas when contrasted with Christianity; nevertheless, so blended are their interests with the existence of Hindooism, that they continue externally to oppose the truth, the force of which they are compelled to feel.
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Vizagapatam
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Last Year
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the car of juggernaut did not appear; its three images offered to missionaries for ten pagodas.
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The car of Juggernaut at Vizagapatam did not make its appearance last year due to fallen public estimation. The Brahmins support Hindooism merely for self-support, indifferent and ignorant of it otherwise, feeling inferior in arguments with missionaries and confounded by the poverty of their dogmas compared to Christianity, yet opposing it externally due to blended interests.