[Footnote 465:  Cf. the title Bhagavata Purana.]

[Footnote 466:  Ekayana is mentioned several times in the Chandogya Up.  (VII. 1, 2 and afterwards) as a branch of religious or literary knowledge and in connection with Narada.  But it is not represented as the highest or satisfying knowledge.]

[Footnote 467:  Even in the Satapatha Br.  Narayana is mentioned in connection with a sacrifice lasting five days, XIII. 6. 1.]

[Footnote 468:  The Samhitas hitherto best known to orientalists appear to be late and spurious.  The Brihadbrahma Samhita published by the Anandasrama Press mentions Ramanuja.  The work printed in the Bibliotheca Indica as Narada Pancaratra (although its proper title apparently is Jnanamritasara) has been analyzed by Roussel in Melanges Harlez and is apparently a late liturgical compilation of little originality.  Schrader’s work was published by the Adyar Library in Madras, 1916.  Apparently the two forms Pancaratra and Pancaratra are both found, but that with the long vowel is the more usual.  Govindacarya’s article in J.R.A.S. 1911, p. 951 may also be consulted.]

[Footnote 469:  The oldest are apparently the Paushkara, Varaha, Brahma, Sattvata, Jaya and Ahirbudhnya Samhitas, all quoted as authoritative by either Ramanuja or Vedanta Desika.]

[Footnote 470:  It is quoted as equal to the Vedas by Yamunacarya, so it must then have been in existence some centuries.]

[Footnote 471:  The story of Svetadvipa or White Island in the Santi-parvan of the Mahabharata states definitely that Narada received the Pancaratra there.]

[Footnote 472:  There is much diversity of statement as to whether there are one or many Saktis.]

[Footnote 473:  Vishnu is the name of God in all his aspects, but especially God as the absolute.  Vasudeva is used both of God as the absolute and also as the first emanation (Vyuha).]

[Footnote 474:  Kriyasakti and Bhutisakti.]

[Footnote 475:  Jnana, aisvarya, sakti, bala, virya, tejas.  These are called gunas but are not to be confounded with the three ordinary gunas.]

[Footnote 476:  The words seem to have been originally proper names.  See the articles in the Petersburg Lexicon.]

[Footnote 477:  Narayana like Vishnu is used to designate more than one aspect of God.  Sometimes it denotes the Absolute.]

[Footnote 478:  The above brief sketch is based on Schrader’s Int. to the Pancaratra where the reader can find full details.]

[Footnote 479:  Comment on Vedanta sutras, II. 2. 42.]

[Footnote 480:  And, as Schrader observes, the evolutionary system of the Pancaratra is practically concerned with only one force, the Sakti, which under the name Bhuti is manifested as the Universe and as Kriya vitalizes and governs it (p. 31).]

[Footnote 481:  On Sutta-nipata, 790, 792.  The doctrine of the Vyuhas is expounded in the Mahabharata Santip.  CCCXL. 36 ff., 70 ff.; CCCXLI. 26 ff.]