p. 553.
[46] That heat was "a form of motion" was thus early discovered.
[47] It is the opinion of Maine ("Ancient Law") and other eminent
scholars, that this code was never fully accepted or enforced in India,
and remained always an ideal of the perfect Brahmanic state.
[48] See Vivien de Saint-Martin, Revue Germanique, July 16, 1862. The
Sarasvati is highly praised in the Rig-Veda. Talboys Wheeler, II. 429.
[49] Max Mueller, Sanskrit Lit., p. 425.
[50] Institutes of Hindu Law, or the Ordinances of Manu, according to the
Gloss of Calluca, Calcutta, 1796, Sec.Sec. 5, 6, 7, 8.
[51] See translation of the Sanhita of the Sama-Veda, by the Rev. J.
Stevenson. London, 1842.
[52] Max Mueller, "Chips," Vol. I. p. 107.
[53] Geschichte der Arier, Buch V. Sec. 8.
[54] Lassen, I. 830.
[55] Laws of Manu (XII. 50) speaks of "the two principles of nature in the
philosophy of Kapila."
[56] Duncker, as above.
[57] Mueller, Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 102.
[58] Colebrooke, Miscellaneous Essays, I. 349.
[59] Lassen, I. 834.
[60] Colebrooke, I. 350, 352.
[61] Duncker, I. 204 (third edition, 1867).
[62] The Sankhya-Karika, translated by Colebrooke. Oxford, 1837.
[63] Essay on the Vedanta, by Chunder Dutt. Calcutta, 1854.
[64] Colebrooke, I. 262.
[65] The Religious Aspects of Hindu Philosophy: A Prize Essay, by Joseph
Mullens, p. 43. London, 1860. See also Dialogues on the Hindu Philosophy,
by Rev. K. M. Banerjea. London, 1861.
[66] Mullens, p. 44.
[67] Duncker, I. 205. He refers to Manu, II. 160.
[68] The Bhagavat-Gita, an episode in the Maha-Bharata, in an authority
with the Vedantists.
[69] Burnouf, Introduction a l'Histoire du Buddhisme Indien, I. 511, 520.
He says that Sukya-Muni began his career with the ideas of the Sankhya
philosophy, namely, absence of God; multiplicity and eternity of human
souls; an eternal plastic nature; transmigration; and Nirvana, or
deliverance by knowledge.
[70] Cours de l'Histoire de Philosophie, I. 200 (Paris, 1829); quoted by
Hardwick, I. 211.
[71] Karika, 8. "It is owing to the subtilty of Nature ... that it is not
apprehended by the senses."
[72] Karika, 19.
[73] Karika, 58, 62, 63, 68.
[74] Quoted from the Lalita Vistara in Dialogues on the Hindu Philosophy.
By Rev. R. M. Banerjea. London: Williams and Nordgate, 1861.
[75] Muir, Sanskrit Texts, Part IV. p. 253.
[76] Journal Am. Orient. Soc., III. 318.
[77] Even in the gramm
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