The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.

The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.

     [Footnote 15:  India, p. 224.]

[Footnote 17:  Barth, p. 23, cites I. 123. 6; X. 107. 2; 82. 2, to prove that stars are souls of dead men.  These passages do not prove the point, but it may be inferred from X. 68. 11.  Later on it is a received belief.  A moon-heaven is found only in VIII. 48.]

     [Footnote 18:  Especially with Ymir in Scandinavian
     mythology.]

     [Footnote 19:  Visionslitteratur, 1892.]

     [Footnote 20:  Henotheism in the Rig Veda, p. 81.]

[Footnote 21:  This religious phase is often confounded loosely with pantheism, but the distinction should be observed.  Parkman speaks of (American) Indian ‘pantheism’; and Barth speaks of ritualistic ‘pantheism,’ meaning thereby the deification of different objects used in sacrifice (p. 37, note).  But chrematheism is as distinct from pantheism as it is from fetishism.]

     [Footnote 22:  Some seem to be old; thus Aramati, piety, has
     an Iranian representative, [=A]rma[=i]t[=i].  As masculine
     abstractions are to be added Anger, Death, etc.]

[Footnote 23:  Compare iv. 50; ii. 23 and 24; v. 43. 12; x. 68. 9; ii. 26. 3; 23. 17; x. 97. 15.  For interpretation compare Hillebrandt, Ved.  Myth. i. 409-420; Bergaigne, La Rel, Ved. i. 304; Muir, OST, v. 272 ff. (with previous literature).]

     [Footnote 24:  Mbh[=a].i. 74. 68.  Compare Holtzmann, ZDMG.
     xxxiii. 631 ff.]

     [Footnote 25:  i. 89. 10:  “Aditi is all the gods and men;
     Aditi is whatever has been born; Aditi is whatever will be
     born.”]

     [Footnote 26:  Henotheism in the Rig Veda (Drisler
     Memorial).]

     [Footnote 27:  Ex. xv. 11; xviii. 11.]

     [Footnote 28:  RV. x. 114. 5; i. 164. 46; AV. iv. 16. 3.]

     [Footnote 29:  Bloomfield, JAOS. xv. 184.]

     [Footnote 30:  “Desire, the primal seed of mind,” x. 129. 4.]

     [Footnote 31:  x. 72 (contains also the origin of the gods
     from Aditi).]

     [Footnote 32:  x. 90, Here chand[=a][.m]si, carmina, is
     probably the Atharvan.]

     [Footnote 33:  Rudras, Vasus, and [=A]dityas, the three
     famous groups of gods.  The Vasus are in Indra’s train, the
     ‘shining,’ or, perhaps, ‘good’ gods.]

     [Footnote 34:  ii. 33. 13; x. 100. 5, etc.  If the idea of
     manus=bonus be rejected, the Latin manes may be referred
     to m[=a]navas, the children of Manu.]

     [Footnote 35:  Or:  “in an earthly place, in the atmosphere,
     or,” etc.]

[Footnote 36:  That is where the Fathers live.  This is the only place where the Fathers are said to be nap[=a]t (descendants) of Vishnu, and here the sense may be “I have discovered Nap[=a]t (fire?)” But in i. 154. 5 Vishnu’s worshippers rejoice in his home.]

     [Footnote 37:  Or:  “form as thou wilt this body (of a corpse)
     to spirit life.”]

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