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 9:  Compare the ‘devil-worship of Ucanas,’ and the
     scoffs at P[=u]shan.  The next step in infidelity is denial
     of a future life and of the worth of the Vedas.]

     [Footnote 10:  In the Buddhistic writings Indra appears as
     the great popular god of the Brahmans (with Brahm[=a] as the
     philosophical god).]

     [Footnote 11:  His body is mortal; his breaths immortal, Cat. 
     Br. x. 1. 4. 1; xi. 1. 2. 12.]

     [Footnote 12:  On these curious pocket-altars, double
     triangles representing the three gods and their wives, with
     Linga and Yon[=i], see JRAS. 1851, p. 71.]

     [Footnote 13:  In the Tantras and late Pur[=a]nas.  In the
     earlier Pur[=a]nas there is as yet no such formal cult.]

     [Footnote 14:  Embodied in the tale of Agni’s advance, IS. i.
     170.]

     [Footnote 15:  Cat Br. ix. 3.1. 18.]

[Footnote 16:  On this quasi deity in modern belief compare IA.  XVIII. 46.  It has happened here that a fate Providence has become supreme.  Thus, too, the Mogul Buddha is realty nothing more or less than Providence.]

     [Footnote 17:  7.  I. 2.]

     [Footnote 18:  In RV.  X. 90. 9, chandas, songs,
     incantations, imply a work of this nature.]

     [Footnote 19:  Unless it be distinctly good magic the epic
     heroes are ashamed to use magical rites.  They insist on the
     intent being unimpeachable.]

     [Footnote 20:  [=A]p.  I. II. 30, 20, etc.  Compare Weber,
     Omina p. 337, and see the Bibliography.]

     [Footnote 21:  T[=a]itt.  S. VI.  I. 1, 2, 3,
     t[=i]rthesn[=a]li.]

[Footnote 22:  Compare Weber’s account of the R[=a]jas[=u]ya, p. 98; and, apropos of the Dacapeya, ib. 78, note; where it is stated that soma-drinking for the warrior-caste is still reflected in this (originally independent) ceremony.]

     [Footnote 23:  The list given above (p. 464) of the ’thrice
     three names’ is made eight by suppressing Kum[=a]ra, and the
     ‘eight names’ are to-day the usual number.]

     [Footnote 24:  C[=a]nkh. (K[=a]nsh.) Br. vi. 1.]

[Footnote 25:  The Brahmanic multiple by preference is (three and) seven (7,21,28,35), that of the Buddhist, eight.  Feer, JA., 1893, p. 113 ff., holds the Svargaparva of the epic to be Buddhistic on account of the hells.  More probably it is a Civaite addition.  The rule does not always hold good, for groups of seven and eight are sometimes Buddhistic and Brahmanic, respectively.]

     [Footnote 26:  Leumann, Rosaries.]

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