[Footnote 615:  Ib. vol.  II. p. 54.]

[Footnote 616:  Ib. vol.  I. p. 77.]

[Footnote 617:  Growse, l.c. vol.  II. p. 200, cf. p. 204.  Maya who sets the whole world dancing and whose actions no one can understand is herself set dancing with all her troupe, like an actress on the stage, by the play of the Lord’s eyebrows.  Cf. too, for the infinity of worlds, pp. 210, 211.]

[Footnote 618:  Growse aptly compares St. Paul, “I had not known evil but by the law.”]

[Footnote 619:  Ib. vol.  II. p. 223.]

[Footnote 620:  Ib. vol.  II. p. 196.]

[Footnote 621:  The Vishnuite sect called Nimavat is said to have been exterminated by Jains (Grierson in E.R.E. sub.  V. Bhakti-marga, p. 545).  This may point to persecution during this period.]

[Footnote 622:  For Vallabhacarya and his sect, see especially Growse, Mathura, a district memoir, 1874; History of the sect of the Maharajas in western India (anonymous), 1865.  Also Bhandarkar, Vaishn. and Saivism, pp. 76-82 and Farquhar, Outlines of Relig.  Lit. of India, pp. 312-317.]

[Footnote 623:  The principal of them are the Siddhanta-Rahasya and the Bhagavata-Tika-Subodhini, a commentary on the Bhagavata Purana.  This is a short poem of only seventeen lines printed in Growse’s Mathura, p. 156.  It professes to be a revelation from the deity to the effect that sin can be done away with by union with Brahma (Brahma-sambandha-karanat).  Other authoritative works of the sect are the Suddhadvaita martanda, Sakalacaryamatasangraha and Prameyaratnarnava, all edited in the Chowkhamba Sanskrit series.]

[Footnote 624:  Cf. the use of the word poshanam in the Bhagavata Purana, II.  X.]

[Footnote 625:  Growse, Mathura, p. 157, says this formula is based on the Naradapancaratra.  It is called Samarpana, dedication, or Brahma-sambandha, connecting oneself with the Supreme Being.]

[Footnote 626:  For instance “Whoever holds his Guru and Krishna to be distinct and different shall be born again as a bird.”  Harirayaji 32.  Quoted in History of the Sect of the Maharajas, p. 82.]

[Footnote 627:  In the ordinary ceremonial the Maharaj stands beside the image of Krishna and acknowledges the worship offered.  Sometimes he is swung in a swing with or without the image.  The hymns sung on these occasions are frequently immoral.  Even more licentious are the meetings or dances known as Ras Mandali and Ras Lila.  A meal of hot food seasoned with aphrodisiacs is also said to be provided in the temples.  The water in which the Maharaj’s linen or feet have been washed is sold for a high price and actually drunk by devotees.]

[Footnote 628:  Strictly speaking the Radha-Vallabhis are not an offshoot of Vallabha’s school, but of the Nimavats or of the Madhva-sampradaya.  The theory underlying their strange practices seems to be that Krishna is the only male and that all mankind should cultivate sentiments of female love for him.  See Macnicol, Indian Theism, p. 134.]