f Sakta worship to the cult of
Krishna. The Varahi Tantra is also Vishnuite. See Raj. Mitra,
_Sanskrit MSS. of Bikaner_, p. 583 and _Notices of Sk. MSS_. III.
(1876), p. 99, and I. cclxxxvii. See too the usages of the Nambuthiri
Brahmans as described in _Cochin Tribes and Castes_, II. pp. 229-233.
In many ways the Nambuthiris preserve the ancient Vedic practices.]

[Footnote 456: See Grierson's articles Gleanings from the Bhaktamala
in _J.R.A.S._ 1909-1910.]

[Footnote 457: _E.g._ Markandeya, Vamana and Varaha. Also the Skanda
Upanishad.]

[Footnote 458: Mahabh. Vanaparvan, 11001 ff. The Bhagavata Purana,
Book IV. sec. 2-7 emphasizes more clearly the objections of the Rishis
to Siva as an enemy of Vedic sacrifices and a patron of unhallowed
rites.]

[Footnote 459: Mahabh. XII. sec. 283. In the same way the worship of
Dionysus was once a novelty in Greece and not countenanced by the
more conservative and respectable party. See Eur. Bacchae, 45. The
Varaha-Purana relates that the Sivaite scriptures were revealed for
the benefit of certain Brahmans whose sins had rendered them incapable
of performing Vedic rites. There is probably some truth in this legend
in so far as it means that Brahmans who were excommunicated for some
fault were disposed to become the ministers of non-Vedic cults.]

[Footnote 460: Mahabh. II. secs. 16, 22 ff.]

[Footnote 461: Drona-p., 2862 ff. Anusasana-p., 590 ff.]

[Footnote 462: _E.g._ Anusasana P., 6806 ff.]

[Footnote 463: _E.g._ the Ahirbudhnya Samhita and Adhyatma Ramayana.]

[Footnote 464: Santipar. cccxxxvii, 12711 ff. In the Bhagavad-gita
Krishna says that he is Vasudeva of the Vrishnis, XI. 37.]

[Footnote 465: Cf. the title Bhagavata Purana.]

[Footnote 466: Ekayana is mentioned several times in the Chandogya Up.
(VII. 1, 2 and afterwards) as a branch of religious or literary
knowledge and in connection with Narada. But it is not represented as
the highest or satisfying knowledge.]

[Footnote 467: Even in the Satapatha Br. Narayana is mentioned in
connection with a sacrifice lasting five days, XIII. 6. 1.]

[Footnote 468: The Samhitas hitherto best known to orientalists
appear to be late and spurious. The Brihadbrahma Samhita published
by the Anandasrama Press mentions Ramanuja. The work printed in the
_Bibliotheca Indica_ as Narada Pancaratra (although its proper title
apparently is Jnanamritasara) has been analyzed by Roussel in
_Melanges Harlez_ and is apparently a lat