[40] Mueller’s Ancient Sanskrit Literature, page 569.  He adds the following remarks:  “There is nothing to prove that this hymn is of a particularly ancient date.  On the contrary, there are expressions in it which seem to belong to a later age.  But even if we assign the lowest possible date to this and similar hymns certain it is that they existed during the Mantra period, and before the composition of the Brahmanas.  For, to spite of all the indications of a modern date, I see no possibility how we could account for the allusions to it which occur in the Brahmanas, or for its presence in the Sanhitas, unless we admit that this poem formed part of the final collection of the Rig-veda-Sanhita, the work of the Mantra period.”

[41] Max Mueller translates “breathed, breathless by itself; other than it nothing since has been.”

[42] Max Mueller says, “Love fell upon it.”

[43] Mueller, Sanskrit Lit., p. 546.

[44] Mueller, Sanskrit Lit., p. 552.

[45] Ibid., p. 553.

[46] That heat was “a form of motion” was thus early discovered.

[47] It is the opinion of Maine ("Ancient Law”) and other eminent scholars, that this code was never fully accepted or enforced in India, and remained always an ideal of the perfect Brahmanic state.

[48] See Vivien de Saint-Martin, Revue Germanique, July 16, 1862.  The Sarasvati is highly praised in the Rig-Veda.  Talboys Wheeler, II. 429.

[49] Max Mueller, Sanskrit Lit., p. 425.

[50] Institutes of Hindu Law, or the Ordinances of Manu, according to the Gloss of Calluca, Calcutta, 1796, Sec.Sec. 5, 6, 7, 8.

[51] See translation of the Sanhita of the Sama-Veda, by the Rev. J. Stevenson.  London, 1842.

[52] Max Mueller, “Chips,” Vol.  I. p. 107.

[53] Geschichte der Arier, Buch V. Sec. 8.

[54] Lassen, I. 830.

[55] Laws of Manu (XII. 50) speaks of “the two principles of nature in the philosophy of Kapila.”

[56] Duncker, as above.

[57] Mueller, Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 102.

[58] Colebrooke, Miscellaneous Essays, I. 349.

[59] Lassen, I. 834.

[60] Colebrooke, I. 350, 352.

[61] Duncker, I. 204 (third edition, 1867).

[62] The Sankhya-Karika, translated by Colebrooke.  Oxford, 1837.

[63] Essay on the Vedanta, by Chunder Dutt.  Calcutta, 1854.

[64] Colebrooke, I. 262.

[65] The Religious Aspects of Hindu Philosophy:  A Prize Essay, by Joseph Mullens, p. 43.  London, 1860.  See also Dialogues on the Hindu Philosophy, by Rev. K. M. Banerjea.  London, 1861.

[66] Mullens, p. 44.

[67] Duncker, I. 205.  He refers to Manu, II. 160.

[68] The Bhagavat-Gita, an episode in the Maha-Bharata, in an authority with the Vedantists.

[69] Burnouf, Introduction a l’Histoire du Buddhisme Indien, I. 511, 520.  He says that Sukya-Muni began his career with the ideas of the Sankhya philosophy, namely, absence of God; multiplicity and eternity of human souls; an eternal plastic nature; transmigration; and Nirvana, or deliverance by knowledge.