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5, note.] [Footnote 33: The _Sarcadarca[n.]asa[=n.]graha_ of S[=a]yana (fourteenth century) and the _Ca[=n.]kara-vijaya,_ or 'Conquest of Cankara.'] [Footnote 34: Thus the Dabist[=a]n enumerates as actual sects of the seventeenth century, 'moon-worshippers,' 'star-worshippers,' 'Agni-worshippers,' 'wind-worshippers,' 'water-worshippers,' 'earth-worshippers,' '_trip[=u]jas_' (or worshippers of all the three kingdoms of nature), and 'worshippers of man' (_manu[s.]yabhakt[=a]s_), "who recognise the being of God in man, and know nothing more perfect than mankind" (ii. 12), a faith which, as we have shown, is professed in the Mah[=a]bh[=a]rata.] [Footnote 35: _Religious Thought and Life_.] [Footnote 36: The Kashmeer Civaites claim Cankara as their teacher. The sect of Basava started in the south, Mysore. They have some trashy literature (legends, etc.) which they dignify by the name of Pur[=a]nas. Buehler has given an account of the Kashmeer school. For further details see Barth, pp. 184, 206.] [Footnote 37: _Brahmanism and Hinduism_, p.62 ff. To this and to the same author's _Thought and Life_, we are indebted for many facts concerning the sects as they appear to-day, though much in these books is said after Wilson or other scholars, whose work is now common property, and calls for no further acknowledgment.] [Footnote 38: It is, perhaps, necessary to keep repeating that Hindu monotheism does not exclude other gods which, at the hands of the one god, are reduced to sprites, angels, demons, etc. But it ought not to be necessary to insist on this, for an American monotheist that believes in angels and devils is the same sort of monotheist. The Hindu calls the angels 'gods' or 'divinities,' but they are only attendant hosts of the One.] [Footnote 39: Some of the Civaite sects are, indeed, Buddhistic in origin, a fact which raises the question whether Buddhism, instead of disappearing from India, was not simply absorbed; much as Unitarianism in New England has spent its vitality in modifying the orthodox creed. Thus the _karma_ of Buddhism may still be working in the person of some modern Hindu sects. See the next note below.] [Footnote 40: Most of the Yogi jugglers are Civaites (when they are not Bud
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