Excerpt from The Moonstone, Vol. 1 of 3: A Romance Of all the deities worshipped in the temple, the moon-god alone escaped the rapacity of the con-x quering Mohammedans. Preserved by three Brah mins, the inviolate deity, bearing the Yellow Dia mond in its forehead, was removed by night, and was transported to the second of the sacred cities of India - the city of Benares. Here, in a new shrine - in 'a hall inlaid with precious stones, under a roof supported by pillars of gold - the moon-god was set up and worshipped. Here, on the night when the shrine was completed, Vishnu the Preserver appeared to the three Brahmins in a dream. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.