note 205: Literally set in front, praefectus.]

[Footnote 206: Sat. Brah. ii. 4. 4. 5.]

[Footnote 207: Sat. Brah. iv. 1. 4. 1-6.]

[Footnote 208: The legends of Vena, Parasurama and others indicate the
prevalence of considerable hostility between Brahmans and Kshatriyas at
some period.]

[Footnote 209: Brahmacarin, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, Sannyasin.]

[Footnote 210: Thus in the Brih.-Aran. Yajnavalkya retires to the
forest. But even the theory of three stages was at this time only in the
making, for the last section of the Chandogya Up. expressly authorizes a
religious man to spend all his life as a householder after completing
his studentship and the account given of the stages in Chand. ii. 21 is
not very clear.]

[Footnote 211: Sat. Brah. xi. 5. 6. 8. Cf. the lists in the Chandogya
Upanishad vii. secs. 1, 2 and 7.]

[Footnote 212: In southern India at the present day it is the custom for
Brahmans to live as Agnihotris and maintain the sacred fire for a few
days after their marriage.]

[Footnote 213: See Thurston, _Castes and Tribes of Southern India_, vol.
v. s.v.]

[Footnote 214: The Emperor Jehangir writing about 1616 implies that the
Asramas, which he describes, were observed by the Brahmans of that time.
See his _Memoirs_, edited by Beveridge, pp. 357-359.]

[Footnote 215: Sat. Brah. I. 7. 2. 1. Cf. Tait. Brah. VI. 3. 10. 5.]

[Footnote 216: Such as those built by Janasruti Pautrayana. See Chand.
Up. IV. 1.]

[Footnote 217: Sat. Brah. XI. 4. 1. 1.]

[Footnote 218: Sat. Brah. ii. 2. 2. 6 and iv. 3. 4. 4.]

[Footnote 219: Sat. Brah. iv. 3. 4. 2.]

[Footnote 220: Vishnu Pur. iii. 5.]

[Footnote 221: Sat. Brah. iii. 8. 2. 24. Yajnavalkya is the principal
authority cited in books i-v and x-xiv of this Brahmana, but not in
books vi-ix, which perhaps represent an earlier treatise incorporated in
the text.]

[Footnote 222: Or "in confidence." Sat. Brah. xi. 3. 1. 4.]

[Footnote 223: Brih.-Ar. iii. 2. 13.]

[Footnote 224: In the Pali Pitaka the Buddha is represented as preaching
in the land of the Kurus.]

[Footnote 225: These are the Pali forms. The Sanskrit equivalents are
Parivrajaka and Sramana.]

[Footnote 226: See for instance Mahav. II. 1 and III. 1.]

[Footnote 227: Dig. Nik. 1.]

[Footnote 228: See O. Schrader, _Stand der indischen Philosophie zur
Zeit Mahaviras und Buddhas_, 1902.

See also Ang. Nik. vol. III. p. 276 and Rhys Davids' _Dialogues of the
Buddha_, I. pp. 220 ff. But