The mythology of India claims unique interest by virtue of its unparalleled
length of life. Aryan mythology is comparatively recent. In mass of content and
in value for mythology, however, these cannot compare with the Rigveda. Of still
more importance is the fact that from the period of the Rigveda to the present
day, a space of some thirty-five hundred years, we have a mythology which is in
constant but organic development. Hindu mythology is a term used by modern
scholarship for a large body of Indian literature that details the lives and
times of legendary personalities, deities and divine incarnations on earth
interspersed with often large