the new successor to the throne was slain by his own nephew, Allah-ud-din, who is reckoned as the third Mohammedan conqueror of India.  His successor swept even the Dekhan of all its Hindu (temple) wealth; but his empire finally broke down under its own size; preparing the way for Timur (Tamerlane), who entered India in 1398.]

     [Footnote 7:  Cankara himself was not a pure Brahman.  Both
     Vishnuites and Civaites lay claim to him.]

[Footnote 8:  Coy as was the Brahman in the adoption of the new gods he was wise enough to give them some place in his pantheon, or he would have offended his laity.  Thus he recognizes K[=a]l[=i] as well as Cr[=i]; in fact he prefers to recognize the female divinities of the sects, for they offer less rivalry.]

[Footnote 9:  There was a general revival of letters antedating the Brahmanic theological revival.  The drama, which reflects equally Hinduism and Brahmanism, is now the favorite light literature of the cultured.  In the sixth century the first astronomical works are written (Var[=a]hamihira, who wrote the B[r.]hat Sa[.m]hit[=a]), and the group of writers called the Nine Gems (reckoned of Vikram[=a]ditya’s court) are to be referred to this time.  The best known among them is K[=a]lid[=a]sa, author of the Cakuntal[=a].  An account of this Renaissance, as he calls it, will be found in Mueller’s India, What Can It Teach Us?  The learned author is perhaps a little too sweeping in his conclusions.  It is, for instance, tolerably certain that the Bh[=a]rata was completed by the time the ‘Renaissance’ began; so that there is no such complete blank as he assumes prior to Vikram[=a]ditya.  But the general state of affairs is such as is depicted in the ingenious article referred to.  The sixth and seventh centuries were eras that introduced modern literature under liberal native princes, who were sometimes not R[=a]jputs at all.  Roughly speaking, one may reckon from 500 B.C. to the Christian era as a period of Buddhistic control, Graeco-Bactrian invasion, and Brahmanic decline.  The first five centuries after the Christian see the two religions in a state of equilibrium, under Scythian control, and the Mah[=a]-Bh[=a]rata, the expanded Bh[=a]rata, is written.  From 500 to 1000 is an era of native rulers, Brahmanic revival in its pure form, and Hindu growth, with little trouble from the Mohammedans.  Then for five centuries the horrors of Moslem conquest.]

     [Footnote 10:  Har. 10,662.  Compare the laudation of ’the two
     gods’ in the same section.]

[Footnote 11:  As the Jains have Angas and Up[=a]ngas, and as the pseudo-epic distinguishes Nishads and Upanishads, so the Brahman has Pur[=a]nas and Upapur[=a]nas (K[=u]rma Pur[=a]na, i. p. 3).  Some of the sects acknowledge only six Pur[=a]nas as orthodox.]

[Footnote 12:  As an example of a Puranic Smriti (legal) we may cite the trash