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...and the devotee must touch both feet, both hands, stomach and forehead and chin to the ground before him - which means prostrate himself. Every temple in S. India has a hall of a 1000 columns - sometimes a little short. The ceiling is low, the columns unimpressive but the bigness of it all, and the "forest of columns" is rather effective. Our young Hindoo guide said there were two million Hindoo gods and he couldn't be expected to know the names of all and I agree. By this time we had learned to know the Brahmins. They were the original high caste and are now divided into many castes but all are superior to all the original lower ones and are greatly looked up to.