four Vedas, i. 1. 272.]

[Footnote 57: Some ascribe the _sams[=a]ra_ doctrine to
Buddhistic influence--a thesis supported only by the fact
that this occurs in late Brahmanic passages and Upanishads.
But the assumption that Upanishads do not precede Buddha is
scarcely tenable. The Katha, according to Weber (_Sits.
Berl. Ak._ 1890, p. 930), is late (Christian!): according to
Oldenberg and Whitney, early (_Buddha_, p. 56; _Proc. AOS._
May, 1886).]

[Footnote 58: xii. 295. 5-6.]

[Footnote 59: Noteworthy is the fact that parts of the
Civaite thirteenth book seem to be most Buddhistic (ch. i.;
143. 48, etc.), and monotheistic (16. 12 ff.): though the
White Islanders are made Vishnuite in the twelfth. Compare
Holtzmann, _ad. loc_.]

[Footnote 60: Nirv[=a]na, loosely used; termini technici;
possibly the evils of the fourth age; the mention of
(Buddhist) temples, etc.]

[Footnote 61: On this point we agree neither with Weber, who
regards the _avatars_ as an imitation of the Incarnation
(_Ind. St._ ii. p. 169), nor with Schroeder, who (_Literatur
und Cultur_, p. 330) would derive the notion from the
birth-stories of Buddha. In our opinion the _avatar_-theory
is older than either and is often only an assimilation of
outlying totem-gods to the Brahman's god, or as in the case
of the flood-story the necessary belief that the 'fish' must
have been the god of the race. Some of these _avatars_ are
Brahmanic, presumably pre-Buddhistic.]

[Footnote 62: Krishna's Geburtsfest (_janm[=a][s.]tam[=i]),_
1867.]

[Footnote 63: Since they do not appear till after the real
epic we date them tentatively as arising after 600 A.D. Most
of them are in still later Pur[=a]nas.]

[Footnote 64: Incidental rapport with the Greeks has been
pointed out in other instances; the _surang[=a]_, a mine, of
the late tale in i. 148. 12, etc (_Ind. St._ ii. p. 395),
has been equated with syrinx; Skanda with Alexander, etc. It
is needless to say that each of these is only a guess in
etymology. But Greek influence is perceptible in the Greek
soldiers and names of (Greek) kings that are found in the
epic.]

[Footnote 65: _Ind. St._ i. 423; ii. 169. Weber believes
that little is native to India which resembles Christianity
in the way of theolo