a]rita-Sa[.m]hit[=a]. Here there is polemic
against Civa; one must worship Jagann[=a]th with flowers,
and every one must be branded with the Vishnu disc
(_cakra_). Even women and slaves are to use _mantras_, etc.]

[Footnote 13: The lateness of this law-book is evident from
its advocacy of _suttee_ (XXV. 14), its preference for
female ancestors (see below), etc.]

[Footnote 14: Manu, III. 89; XII. 121.]

[Footnote 15: As, for example, in K[=u]rma Pur[=a]na, XVI.
p. 186, where is found a common epic verse description of
battle.]

[Footnote 16: A good instance of this is found in Brihan
N[=a]rad[=i]ya Pur[=a]na, X., where the _churik[=a]_ and
_drugha[n.]a_ (24) appear in an imitative scene of this
sort; one of these being later, the other earlier, than the
epic vocabulary.]

[Footnote 17: Perhaps the most striking distinction between
Vedic and Puranic, or one may say, Indic Aryan and Hindu
religions, is the emphasis laid in the former upon Right; in
the latter, upon idols. The Vedic religion insists upon the
law of right (order), that is, the sacrifice; but it insists
also upon right as rectitude, truth, holiness. Puranic
Hinduism insists upon its idols; only incidentally does it
recommend rectitude, truth, abstract holiness.]

[Footnote 18: KP. i. p. 29.]

[Footnote 19: K[=u]rma, xii. p. 102. Contrast _ib_. xxii. p.
245, _caturvy[=u]hadhara Vishnur avy[=u]has procyate_
(elsewhere _navavy[=u]ha_). Philosophically, in the doctrine
of the epic P[=a]ncar[=a]tras (still held by some
sectaries), Vishnu is to be revered as Krishna, Balar[=a]ma,
Pradymana, Aniruddha (Krishna's brother, son, and grandson),
representing, respectively, _[=a]tm[=a], j[=i]va,_ supreme
and individual spirit, perception, and consciousness.
Compare Mbh[=a]. xii. 340. 8, 72.]

[Footnote 20: KP. xxi. p. 236; xxii. p. 238, etc.]

[Footnote 21: _ib._ I, p. 23.]

[Footnote 22: Compare Brihan N[=a]radiya Pur[=a]na, xiv. 10,
_bah[=u]ni k[=a][s.][t.]hay[=a]ntr[=a][n.]i_ (torture
machines) in hell. The old tale of N[=a]ciketas is retold at
great length in the Var[=a]ha Pur[a=]na. The oldest
Pur[=a]na, the M[=a]rkandeya, has but seven hells, a
conception older than Manu's twenty-one (compare on MP. x.
80 ff., Scherman, _loc. cit_. p. 33), or