[Footnote 26:  As will be shown below, it is possible that
     this may be a ceremony first taken from the wild tribes.  See
     the ‘pole’ rite described above in the epic.]

     [Footnote 27:  Compare for instance ib. xxviii. 68, on the
     strange connection of a C[=u]dr[=a] wife of a Guru.]

[Footnote 28:  KP. xxxvi.  It is of course impossible to say how much epic materials come from the literary epic and how much is drawn from popular poetry, for the vulgar had their own epoidic songs which may have treated of the same topics.  Thus even a wild tribe (Gonds) is credited with an ‘epic.’  But such stuff was probably as worthless as are the popular songs of today.]

     [Footnote 29:  KP. xxx. p. 305; xxxvii. p. 352.]

     [Footnote 30:  ib. p. 355.]

[Footnote 31:  Compare N[=a]rad[=i]ya, xi. 23,27,31 ’the one whom no one knows,’ ‘he that rests in the heart,’ ’he that seems to be far off because we do not know,’ ’he whose form is Civa, lauded by Vishnu,’ xiii. 201.]

     [Footnote 32:  Even Vishnu as a part of a part of the Supreme
     Spirit in VP. is indicated by Vishnu’s adoration of
     [=a]tm[=a] in the epic (see above).]

     [Footnote 33:  Compare Williams’ Brahmanism and Hinduism.]

[Footnote 34:  Cankara’s adherents are chiefly Civaite, but he himself was not a sectary.  Williams says that at the present day few worship Civa exclusively, but he has more partial adherents than has Vishnu. Religious Thought and Life, pp. 59, 62.]

     [Footnote 35:  The two last are just recognized in Brahmanic
     legal works.]

[Footnote 36:  See Wilson’s sketch of Hindu sects.  The author says that there were in his day two shrines to Brahm[=a], one in [=A]jm[=i]r (compare Pushkara in the epic), and one on the Ganges at Bithur.  The Brahma Pur[=a]na is known also as S[=a]ura (sun).  This is the first in the list; in its present state it is Vishnuite.]

[Footnote 37:  Sun-worship (Iranian?) is especially pronounced in the Bhav[=i]shya(t) Pur[=a]na.  Of the other Pur[=a]nas the L[=i]nga is especially Civaite (linga is phallus), as are the Matsya and older V[=a]yu.  Sometimes Civa is androgynous, ardhan[=a]r[=i]cvara, ‘half-female.’  But most of the Pur[=a]nas are Vishnuite.]

     [Footnote 38:  On the Ganeca Pur[=a]na see JRAS. 1846, p.
     319.]

[Footnote 39:  The worshippers of Bhagavat were originally distinct from the P[=a]ncar[=a]tras, but what was the difference between them is unknown.  The sect of this name in the pseudo-epic is not C[=a]kta in expression but only monotheistic.  Probably the names of many sects are retained with altered beliefs and practices.  The Vishnu Pur[=a]na, i. 11. 54, gives a model prayer which may be taken once for