dhistic), and to-day they share with the
(Mohammedan) fakirs the honor of being not only ascetics but
knaves. The juggler Yogi is, however, a figure of
respectable antiquity. The magical tricks practiced on the
epic heroes are doubtless a reflex of the current mesmerism,
which deceives so cleverly to-day. We have shown above a
Buddhistic strain of Mah[=a]tmaism in an early Buddhistic
tract, and Barth, p. 213, suggests a Buddhistic origin for
the K[=a]naph[=a]ts. See also Holtzmann, _loc. cit._ The
deistic Yogis of Gorakhn[=a]th's sect are respectable enough
(see an account of some of this sort in the Dabist[=a]n, II.
6), but they are of Buddhistic origin. The K[=a]naph[=a]ts
of Kutch (Danodhar) were once a celibate brotherhood. JRAS.
1839, p. 268.]

[Footnote 41: See JAOS. xi. 272. To ascribe this verse to
the 'older Manu' would be a grave slip on the part of a
Sanskrit scholar.]

[Footnote 42: i. 1. 76.]

[Footnote 43: The Dabist[=a]n, without any animus, reports
of the C[=a]ktas of the seventeenth century that "Civa is,
in their opinion, _with little exception_, the highest of
the deities" (II. 7). Williams calls C[=a]ktaism "a mere
offshoot of Civaism" _Religious Thought and Life_, p. 184.]

[Footnote 44: The Dabist[=a]n rather assumes as a matter of
course that a body of Yogis would kill and eat a boy of the
Mohammedan faith (II. 12); but here the author may be
prejudiced.]

[Footnote 45: The present sect of this name consists only of
a few miserable mendicants, particularly savage and filthy
(Wilson).]

[Footnote 46: All of them now represent Cakti, the female
principle. Linga-worship has also its counterpart,
Bhaga-worship (here Yoni), perhaps represented by the altar
itself. Compare the Dabist[=a]n, II. 7, on the Civaite
interpretation of the Mohammedan altar. To Durga human
beings were always sacrificed. After mentioning a gold idol
of Durg[=a] (to whom men were sacrificed yearly), the author
adds: "Even now they sacrifice in every village of the
Kohistan of Nandapur and the country adjacent, a man of
good family" (_ib._). Durg[=a] {above, p. 416) is Vishnu's
sister.]

[Footnote 47: The sexual antithesis, so unimportant in the
earliest Aryan nature-hymns, becomes more and more
pronounce