[Footnote 707:  Bernheim, La Suggestion, chap.  I. Quand j’ai eloigne de son esprit la preoccupation que fait naitre l’idee de magnetisme ... je lui dis “Regardez-moi bien et ne songez qu’a dormir.  Vous allez sentir une lourdeur dans les paupieres, une fatigue dans vos yeux:  ils clignotent, ils vont se mouiller; la vue devient confuse:  ils se ferment.”  Quelques sujets ferment les yeux et dorment immediatement.... C’est le sommeil par la suggestion, c’est l’image du sommeil que je suggere, que j’insinue dans le cerveau.  Les passes, la fixation des yeux ou des doigts de l’operateur, propres seulement a concentrer l’attention, ne sont pas absolument necessaires.]

[Footnote 708:  Thus in the drama Ratnavali a magician makes the characters see an imaginary conflagration of the palace and also a vision of heaven.  His performance seems to be accepted as merely a remarkable piece of conjuring.]

[Footnote 709:  Ang.  Nik. xvi. 1.  In spite of his magic power he could not prevent himself being murdered.  The Milinda-Panha explains this as the result of Karma, which is stronger than magic and everything else.]

[Footnote 710:  E.g. Maj.  Nik. 77. ]

[Footnote 711:  Cullavag. v. 8.]

[Footnote 712:  Dig.  Nik. xi.]

[Footnote 713:  Visuddhi Magga, xii. in Warren, Buddhism in Translation, pp. 315 ff.]

[Footnote 714:  R.V.  II. 12. 5.]

[Footnote 715:  Yet Tennyson can say “And at their feet the crocus brake like fire,” but in a mythological poem.]

[Footnote 716:  Mahav.  V. i.]

[Footnote 717:  E.g.  Dig.  Nik.  XI. and Cullavag.  V. 8.]

[Footnote 718:  Even in the Upanishads the gods are not given a very high position.  They are powerless against Brahman (e.g.  Kena Up. 14-28) and are not naturally in possession of true knowledge, though they may acquire it (e.g.  Chand.  Up.  VIII. 7).]

[Footnote 719:  Dig.  Nik.  XI.]

[Footnote 720:  Dig.  Nik.  I. chap. 2, 1-6.  The radiant gods are the Abhassara, cf.  Dhammap 200.]

[Footnote 721:  Watters, II. p. 160.]

[Footnote 722:  The legends of both Rama and Krishna occur in the Book of Jatakas in a somewhat altered form, nos. 641 and 454.]

[Footnote 723:  Thus Helios the Sun passes into St Elias.]

[Footnote 724:  He is often called Brahma Sahampati, a title of doubtful meaning and not found in Brahmanic writings.  The Pitakas often speak of Brahmas and worlds of Brahma in the plural, as if there were a whole class of Brahmas.  See especially the Suttas collected in book I, chap. vi. of the Samyutta-Nikaya where we even hear of Pacceka Brahmas, apparently corresponding in some way to Pacceka Buddhas.]

[Footnote 725:  Maj.  Nik. 49.  The meaning of the title Baka is not clear and may be ironical.  Another ironical name is manopadosika (debauched in mind) invented as the title of a class of gods in Dig.  Nik.  I. and XX.  The idea that sages can instruct the gods is anterior to Buddhism, See e.g.  Brihad-Ar.  Up.  II. 5. 17, and ib.  IV. 3. 33, and the parallel passage in the Tait.  Chand.  Kaush.  Upanishads and Sat.  Brahmana for the idea that a Srotriya is equal to the highest deities.]