[Footnote 629:  But other explanations are current such as Lord of the senses or Lord of the Vedas.]

[Footnote 630:  See Growse, Mathura, p. 153.  I can entirely confirm what he says.  This mean, inartistic, dirty place certainly suggests moral depravity.]

[Footnote 631:  His real name was Sahajananda.]

[Footnote 632:  Caran Das (1703-1782) founded a somewhat similar sect which professed to abolish idolatry and laid great stress on ethics.  See Grierson’s article Caran Das in E.R.E.]

[Footnote 633:  But Vishnuite writers distinguish kama desire and prema love, just as [Greek:  eros] and [Greek:  haghape] are distinguished in Greek.  See Dinesh Chandra Sen, l.c. p. 485.]

[Footnote 634:  Dinesh Chandra Sen, History of Bengali Language and Literature, pp. 134-5.]

[Footnote 635:  For Caitanya see Dinesh Chandra Sen, History of Bengali Language and Lit. chap.  V. and Jadunath Sarkar, Chaitanya’s Pilgrimages and teachings from the Caitanya-Caritamrita of Krishna Das (1590) founded on the earlier Caitanya-Caritra of Brindavan.  Several of Caitanya’s followers were also voluminous writers.]

[Footnote 636:  He married the daughter of a certain Vallabha who apparently was not the founder of the Sect, as is often stated.]

[Footnote 637:  The theology of the sect may be studied in Baladeva’s commentary on the Vedanta sutras and his Prameya Ratnavali, both contained in vol.  V. of the Sacred Books of the Hindus.  It would appear that the sect regards itself as a continuation of the Brahma-sampradaya but its tenets have more resemblance to those of Vallabha.]

[Footnote 638:  No less than 159 padakartas or religious poets are enumerated by Dinesh Chandra Sen.  Several collections of these poems have been published of which the principal is called Padakalpataru.]

[Footnote 639:  See Bhandarkar, Vaishn. and Saivism, pp. 87-90, and Nicol, Psalms of Maratha Saints which gives a bibliography.  For Namdev see also Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion, vol.  VI. pp. 17-76.  For Ramdas see Rawlinson, Sivaji the Maratha, pp. 116 ff.]

[Footnote 640:  Bhandarkar, l.c. p. 92.  An earlier poet of this country was Jnanesvara who wrote a paraphrase of the Bhagavad-gita in 1290.  His writings are said to be the first great landmark in Marathi literature.]

[Footnote 641:  There is no necessary hostility between the worship of Siva and of Vishnu.  At Pandharpur pilgrims visit first a temple of Siva and then the principal shrine.  This latter, like the temple of Jagannath at Puri, is suspected of having been a Buddhist shrine.  It is called Vihara, the principal festival is in the Buddhist Lent and caste is not observed within its precincts.]

[Footnote 642:  Quoted by Bhandarkar, p. 90.  The subsequent quotations are from the same source but I have sometimes slightly modified them and compared them with the original, though I have no pretension to be a Marathi scholar.]