[Footnote 8:  That is, one that also has no desires may act
     (without desiring the fruit of action.)]

     [Footnote 9:  This is a S[=a]nkhya division.]

[Footnote 10:  This cleverly contrived or profound universality of Vishnuism is one of the greatest obstacles to missionary effort.  The Vishnuite will accept Christ, but as a form of Vishnu, as here explained.  Compare below:  “Even they that sacrifice to other gods really sacrifice to Me.”]

[Footnote 11:  Prakriti (prak[r.]t[=i]), nature; the term belongs to the S[=a]nkhya philosophy, which recognizes nature as distinct from spirit, a duality, opposed to adv[=a]ita, the non-duality of the Ved[=a]nta system, where the S[=a]nkhya ‘nature’ is represented by m[=a]y[=a], ‘illusion.’  Otherwise the word Prakrit is the ‘natural,’ vulgar dialect, opposed to Sanskrit, the refined, ‘put-together’ language.]

     [Footnote 12:  Saints, literally ‘the successful ones.’]

     [Footnote 13:  Alluding to the later derivation of Yama from
     yam, control.]

     [Footnote 14:  “The letter A,” as in the Upanishads (see
     above, p. 226).]

     [Footnote 15:  Compare a parallel list of diadochoi in xii.
     349. 51.]

[Footnote 16:  One of the Jaina traits of the epic, brahm[=a]di[s.]u t[r.]u[=a]nte[s.]u bh[=u]te[s.]u parivartate, in distinction from the Buddhistic metempsychosis, which stops short of plants.  But perhaps it is rather borrowed from the B[.r]ahman by the Jain, for there is a formal acknowledgment that sth[=a]var[=a]s ‘stationary things,’ have part in metempsychosis, Manu, xii. 42, although in the distribution that follows this is almost ignored (vs. 58).]

     [Footnote 17:  It is rather difficult to compress the list
     into this number.  Some of the names are perhaps later
     additions.]

     [Footnote 18:  In contrast one may note the frequent boast
     that a king ‘fears not even the gods,’ e.g., i. 199. 1.]

     [Footnote 19:  Later there are twenty-one worlds analogous lo
     the twenty-one hells.]

     [Footnote 20:  Elsewhere, oh the other hand, the islands are
     four or seven, the earlier view.]

[Footnote 21:  iii. 142.  The boar-shape of Vishnu is a favorite one, as is the dwarf-incarnation.  Compare V[=a]mana, V[=a]manaka, Vishnupada, in the list of holy watering-places (iii. 83).  Many of Vishnu’s acts are simply transferred from Brahm[=a], to whom they belonged in older tales.  Compare above, p.215.]

[Footnote 22:  In i. 197, Praj[=a]pati the Father-god, is the highest god, to whom Indra, as usual, runs for help.  Civa appears as a higher god, and drives Indra into a hole, where he sees five former Indras; and finally Vishnu comes on to the stage as the highest of all,