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0. 3-4. The penultimate verse is literally 'the direction(s) of the order magnify me,' the order being that of the seasons and of seasonable rites.] [Footnote 9: Compare the 'devil-worship of Ucanas,' and the scoffs at P[=u]shan. The next step in infidelity is denial of a future life and of the worth of the Vedas.] [Footnote 10: In the Buddhistic writings Indra appears as the great popular god of the Brahmans (with Brahm[=a] as the philosophical god).] [Footnote 11: His body is mortal; his breaths immortal, Cat. Br. x. 1. 4. 1; xi. 1. 2. 12.] [Footnote 12: On these curious pocket-altars, double triangles representing the three gods and their wives, with Linga and Yon[=i], see JRAS. 1851, p. 71.] [Footnote 13: In the Tantras and late Pur[=a]nas. In the earlier Pur[=a]nas there is as yet no such formal cult.] [Footnote 14: Embodied in the tale of Agni's advance, IS. i. 170.] [Footnote 15: Cat Br. ix. 3.1. 18.] [Footnote 16: On this _quasi_ deity in modern belief compare IA. XVIII. 46. It has happened here that a fate Providence has become supreme. Thus, too, the Mogul Buddha is realty nothing more or less than Providence.] [Footnote 17: 7. I. 2.] [Footnote 18: In RV. X. 90. 9, _chandas_, songs, incantations, imply a work of this nature.] [Footnote 19: Unless it be distinctly _good_ magic the epic heroes are ashamed to use magical rites. They insist on the intent being unimpeachable.] [Footnote 20: [=A]p. I. II. 30, 20, etc. Compare Weber, _Omina_ p. 337, and see the Bibliography.] [Footnote 21: T[=a]itt. S. VI. I. 1, 2, 3, _t[=i]rthesn[=a]li._] [Footnote 22: Compare Weber's account of the R[=a]jas[=u]ya, p. 98; and, apropos of the Dacapeya, _ib._ 78, note; where it is stated that _soma_-drinking for the warrior-caste is still reflected in this (originally independent) ceremony.] [Footnote 23: The list given above (p. 464) of the 'thrice three names' is made eight by suppressing Kum[=a]ra, and the 'eight names' are to-day the usual number.] [Footnote 24: C[=a]nkh. (K[=a]nsh.) Br. vi. 1.] [Footnote 25: The Brahmanic multiple by preference is (three and) seven (7,21,28,35), that of the Buddhist, eight. Feer, JA., 1893, p. 113 ff., holds the Svargaparva of the epic to b
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