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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