the later lists of
thousands. The Padma Pur[=a]na, with celebrates R[=a]ma, has
also seven hells, and is in part old, for it especially
extols Pushkara (Brahm[=a]'s lone shrine); but it recommends
the _taptamudra_, or branding with hot iron.]

[Footnote 23: Nar. xiv. 2.]

[Footnote 24: xiv. 54 and 70.]

[Footnote 25: KP. xxii. pp, 239-241.]

[Footnote 26: As will be shown below, it is possible that
this may be a ceremony first taken from the wild tribes. See
the 'pole' rite described above in the epic.]

[Footnote 27: Compare for instance _ib_. xxviii. 68, on the
strange connection of a C[=u]dr[=a] wife of a Guru.]

[Footnote 28: KP. xxxvi. It is of course impossible to say
how much epic materials come from the literary epic and how
much is drawn from popular poetry, for the vulgar had their
own epoidic songs which may have treated of the same topics.
Thus even a wild tribe (Gonds) is credited with an 'epic.'
But such stuff was probably as worthless as are the popular
songs of today.]

[Footnote 29: KP. xxx. p. 305; xxxvii. p. 352.]

[Footnote 30: _ib._ p. 355.]

[Footnote 31: Compare N[=a]rad[=i]ya, xi. 23,27,31 'the one
whom no one knows,' 'he that rests in the heart,' 'he that
seems to be far off because we do not know,' 'he whose form
is Civa, lauded by Vishnu,' xiii. 201.]

[Footnote 32: Even Vishnu as a part of a part of the Supreme
Spirit in VP. is indicated by Vishnu's adoration of
_[=a]tm[=a]_ in the epic (see above).]

[Footnote 33: Compare Williams' _Brahmanism and Hinduism_.]

[Footnote 34: Cankara's adherents are chiefly Civaite, but
he himself was not a sectary. Williams says that at the
present day few worship Civa exclusively, but he has more
partial adherents than has Vishnu. _Religious Thought and
Life,_ pp. 59, 62.]

[Footnote 35: The two last are just recognized in Brahmanic
legal works.]

[Footnote 36: See Wilson's sketch of Hindu sects. The author
says that there were in his day two shrines to Brahm[=a],
one in [=A]jm[=i]r (compare Pushkara in the epic), and one
on the Ganges at Bithur. The Brahma Pur[=a]na is known also
as S[=a]ura (sun). This is the first in the list; in its
present state it is Vishnuite.]

[Footnote 37: Sun-worship (Iranian?) is especially
p