e Buddhistic on account of the hells. More probably it is a
Civaite addition. The rule does not always hold good, for
groups of seven and eight are sometimes Buddhistic and
Brahmanic, respectively.]

[Footnote 26: Leumann, _Rosaries_.]

[Footnote 27: Friederich,; JRAS. viii. 157; ix. 59. The only
established reference to Buddha on the part of Brahmanism,
with the exception of late Pur[=a]nas of uncertain date, is
after Kshemendra (1066 A.D.). Compare Holtzmann, s.
_Geschichte_, p. 103.]

[Footnote 28: _Na tat parasya sandadhy[=a]t pratik[=u]la[.m]
yad [=a]tmanas_. This is a favorite stanza in the epic, and
is imitated in later literature (Sprueche, 3253, 6578,
6593).]

[Footnote 29: Burnell in the _Indian Antiquary_, second and
following volumes; Swanston, JRAS. 1834; 1835; Germann, _Die
Kirche der Thomaschristen_.]

[Footnote 30: Above, cited from Hardy.]

[Footnote 31: Some of the multitudinous subcastes
occasionally focus about a religious principle to such an
extent as to give them almost the appearance of religious
devotees. Thus the Bhats and Ch[=a]rans are heralds and
bards with the mixed faith of so many low-caste Hindus. But
in their office of herald they have a religious pride, and,
since in the present day they are less heralds than
expressmen, they carry property with religious reverence,
and are respected in their office even by robbers; for it
this caste that do not hesitate to commit _traga_, that is,
if an agreement which they have caused to be made between
two parties is not carried out they will kill themselves and
their families, with such religious effect that the guilt
lies upon the offending party in the agreement, who expiates
it by his own life. They are regarded as a sort of divine
representative, and fed themselves to be so. A case reported
from India in this year, 1894, shows that the feeling still
exists. The herald slew his own mother in the presence of
the defaulting debtor, who thereupon slew himself as his
only expiation.]

[Footnote 32: As, for example, between the D[=a]d[=u]
Panth[=i]s and the Jains in Ajmir and Jeypur. The last was a
chief Digambara town, while Mathur[=a] (on the Jumna) was a
Cret[=a]mbara station. For a possible survival of Buddhism,
see below, p. 48