Senart, Buddha; Oldham, JRAS. xxiii. 361.  Idols:  Weber, Omina und Portenta, p. 337; Ludwig, Nachrichten; Bollensen, ZDMG. xxii. 587, xlvii. 586; Mueller, Chips, i. 37;[27] Muir, OST., v. 453; Kaegi, Rig Veda, note 79^a.  Ages and Holy Numbers:[28] Roth, Ueber den AV., and Ueber den Mythus von den fuenf Menschen-Geschlechtern bei Hesiod; Weber, Cycles, IS. ix. 460; ZDMG. xv. 132; Kaegi, Die Neunzahl; Schroeder, seven as holy number, KZ. xxix. 224; Hopkins, Holy Numbers of the Rig Veda.[29] See Star-lore, above.

#Brahmanism#:  Specimens, Muir, OST. iv; S[=a]man, Benfey, Griffith; Sha[d.]vi[.m]ca, Weber, Omina (above); M[=a]it.  S., Haug, IS. ix. 174; von Schroeder, Literatur, and ZDMG. xxxiii. 177; Catapatha, partial translation, Eggeling, SBE., xii, xxvi, xli; Muir, JRAS. 1862, p. 31 (OST.); Weber, IS. i. 161 and Ind.  Streifen, i. 9; first chapter, ZDMG. iv. 289; Brunnhofer (relation of parts), BB. x. 234; [=A]it.  Br., Haug; Weber, IS. ix. 177; Deluge, etc., Bopp, Suendfluet; Weber, ZDMG. v. 525, Ind.  Streifen, i. 9; Roth, ZDMG. vi. 243; Lindner, Ir.  Fluthsage, Festgruss an Roth.  Upanishads:[30] Cowell, Roer, Bib.  Ind.; Whitney, Boehtlingk (Ka[t.]ha, Ch[=a]ndogya, Ait K[=a]ush[=i]tak[=i], Kena, B[r.]had[=a]ra[n.]yaka); Weber, IS. i, ii, ix; Mueller, SBE., i, xv (all the chief works);[31] Oertel, J[=a]imin[=i]ya, PAOS. 1894; list of, Mueller, ZDMG. xix. 137; Concordance of Upanishads, Jacob.  For a general introduction the best work in English are the translations in the Sacred Books.  Gough’s Philosophy of the Upanishads has many translations, but the book is otherwise not to be recommended.  On [=a]tm[=a] as [Greek:  autmen], see KZ. xvii 145.  Philosophy:  Deussen, Das System des Ved[=a]nta, 1883, is now the standard work;[32] to which should be added the same author’s S[=u]tra; Jacob’s Ved[=a]ntas[=a]ra; and Thibaut, Ved[=a]nta S[=u]tra, SBE. xxxiv.[33] For the S[=a]nkhya, Davies, S[=a]nkhya; and Ballantyne, Aphorisms; but the best work is now Garbe, Die S[=a]mkhya Philosophie (1894).  A good general introduction to Hindu Pantheism has been given by Lanman, Beginnings of Hindu Pantheism.  The best general summary[34] of Hindu philosophies is found in the revised edition of Colebrooke’s Essays.  Other special studies include Roth, Brahma und die Brahmanen,[35] ZDMG. i. 66 (on brahma); Mueller, ib. vi. 1, 219, vii. 287 (Beitraege zur Kenntniss der Ind.  Phil.); Roer, ib. xxi. 309, xxii. 383 (Die Lehrsprueche der Vaiceshika Philosophie); Muir, Theism in Vaiceshika Philosophy, JRAS. 1862, p. 22; Ballantyne, Ny[=a]yas[=u]tras; Windisch, Ueber das Ny[=a]yabh[=a]shya, 1888, an Sitz der denkenden Seele, Beitr. d. k.  Saechs.  Gesell., 1891, p. 55; Ballantyne and Cowell, C[=a][n.][d.]ilya’s Aphorisms (text by B., translation by C., Bib.  Ind.); Regnaud, Le Pessimisme Br[=a]hmanique, Ann. du Mus.  Guimet, i, and Materiaux pour servir a l’histoire de la philosophie d’Inde.  The Sarvadarcanasa[.n]graha is translated by Cowell and Gough.  The S[=u]tras of the six systems have all been translated (with the texts) in India.  On the date of Cankara see Pathak, IA. xi. 174; and Telang and Fleet, ib. xiii. 95, xvi. 41; Logan, ib. xvi. 160.