[Footnote 59:  Noteworthy is the fact that parts of the Civaite thirteenth book seem to be most Buddhistic (ch. i.; 143. 48, etc.), and monotheistic (16. 12 ff.):  though the White Islanders are made Vishnuite in the twelfth.  Compare Holtzmann, ad. loc.]

     [Footnote 60:  Nirv[=a]na, loosely used; termini technici;
     possibly the evils of the fourth age; the mention of
     (Buddhist) temples, etc.]

[Footnote 61:  On this point we agree neither with Weber, who regards the avatars as an imitation of the Incarnation (Ind.  St. ii. p. 169), nor with Schroeder, who (Literatur und Cultur, p. 330) would derive the notion from the birth-stories of Buddha.  In our opinion the avatar-theory is older than either and is often only an assimilation of outlying totem-gods to the Brahman’s god, or as in the case of the flood-story the necessary belief that the ‘fish’ must have been the god of the race.  Some of these avatars are Brahmanic, presumably pre-Buddhistic.]

     [Footnote 62:  Krishna’s Geburtsfest (janm[=a][s.]tam[=i]),
     1867.]

     [Footnote 63:  Since they do not appear till after the real
     epic we date them tentatively as arising after 600 A.D.  Most
     of them are in still later Pur[=a]nas.]

[Footnote 64:  Incidental rapport with the Greeks has been pointed out in other instances; the surang[=a], a mine, of the late tale in i. 148. 12, etc (Ind.  St. ii. p. 395), has been equated with syrinx; Skanda with Alexander, etc.  It is needless to say that each of these is only a guess in etymology.  But Greek influence is perceptible in the Greek soldiers and names of (Greek) kings that are found in the epic.]

[Footnote 65:  Ind.  St. i. 423; ii. 169.  Weber believes that little is native to India which resembles Christianity in the way of theology; lore of God, special grace, monotheism, all to him are stolen.  We regret that we must disagree with him in these instances.]

     [Footnote 66:  Ekata, Dvita, Trita.  A Dvita appears as early
     as the Rig Veda.  Ekata is an analogous formation and is old
     also.]

     [Footnote 67:  Hrish[=i]keca is ‘lord of senses,’ a common
     epithet of Vishnu (Krishna).]

[Footnote 68:  i. 107. 1 ff.  The spirits of the dead come to him and comfort him in the shape of birds—­an old trait, compare B[=a]udh.  Dh.  C[=a]st. ii. 8. 14. 10; Cat.  Br. vi. 1. 1. 2.]

     [Footnote 69:  xii. 300. 20.]

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CHAPTER XVI.

THE PUR[=A]NAS.—­EARLY SECTS, FESTIVALS, THE TRINITY.