Both Uses of
Hinduism
in
Atlas Shrugged
- A chunk of stone with Egyptian hieroglyphs lay on a pedestal in a corner of the office-the statue of a Hindu goddess with six spider arms stood in a niche-and a huge graph of bewildering mathematical detail, like the sales chart of a mail-order house, hung on the wall.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- You, who claim that you long to rise above the crude concerns of the body, above the drudgery of serving mere physical needs-who is enslaved by physical needs: the Hindu who labors from sunrise to sunset at the shafts of a hand-plow for a bowl of rice, or the American who is driving a tractor?†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(Hinduism) the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in Indiaeditor's notes: Only Christianity and Islam have more followers than Hinduism.