Tiruvacagam_, p. 257.]

[Footnote 537: Yet I have read that American revivalists describe how
you play base ball (an American game) with Jesus.]

[Footnote 538: Pope's _Tiruvacagam_, p. 101.]

[Footnote 539: It does not seem to me that the legend of Siva's
drinking the hala-hala poison is really parallel to the sufferings of
the Christian redeemer. At the most it is a benevolent exploit like
many performed by Vishnu.]

[Footnote 540: Although Siva is said to have been many times incarnate
(see for instance _Catechism of the Shaiva religion_, p. 20) he seems
to have merely appeared in human form on special occasions and not to
have been like Christ or Krishna a god living as a man from birth to
death.]

[Footnote 541: The lines which seem most clearly to reflect Christian
influence are those quoted by Caldwell from the Nana nuru in the
introduction to his _Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian languages_,
p. 127, but neither the date of the work nor the original of the
quotation is given. This part of the introduction is omitted in the
third edition.]

[Footnote 542: _Tamilian Antiquary_, 4, 1909, pp. 57-82.]

[Footnote 543: _Ib._ pp. 1-57; Sesha Aiyer gives 275 A.D. as the
probable date, and 375 as the latest date.]

[Footnote 544: The Saiva catechism translated by Foulkes says (p. 27)
that Siva revealed the Tiruvacagam twice, first to Manikka-Vacagar and
later to Tiru-Kovaiyar.]

[Footnote 545: Sanskrit, _Siddha._]

[Footnote 546: Space forbids me to quote the Siva-vakyam and
Pattanattu Pillai, interesting as they are. The reader is
referred to Gover, _Folk-Songs of southern India_, 1871, a work which
is well worth reading.]

[Footnote 547: The date of the Skanda Purana creates no difficulty
for Bendall considered a MS. of it found in Nepal to be anterior to
659 A.D.]

[Footnote 548: One of his maxims was _adu, adu adal_, that is the mind
becomes that (spiritual or material) with which it identifies itself
most completely.]

[Footnote 549: It is contained in fourteen sastras, most of which are
attributed to the four teachers mentioned above.]

[Footnote 550: For the Kashmir school see Barnett in _Museon_, 1909,
pp. 271-277. _J.R.A.S._ 1910, pp. 707-747. Kashmir Sanskrit series,
particularly vol. II. entitled _Kashmir Saivism_. The Siva sutras and
the commentary Vimar'sini translated in _Indian Thought_, 1911-12.
Also Srinivasa Iyengar, _Outlines of Indian Philosophy_, pp. 168-175
and _Sarva-darsana-s