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[Footnote 8: Schroeder, Indiens Literatur und Cultur, p.291, gives: RigVeda, 2000-1000 B.C.; older Br[=a]hmanas, 1000-800; later Br[=a]hmanas and Upanishads, 800-600; S[=u]tras, 600-400 or 300.]
[Footnote 9: Principles of Sociology, I. P.448 (Appleton, 1882).]
[Footnote 10: Ib. p. 398.]
[Footnote 11: lb. p. 427.]
[Footnote 12: Ib. p. 824.]
[Footnote 13: Ib.]
[Footnote 14: Ib. p. 821.]
[Footnote 15: Compare Muir, Original Sanskrit Texts, V. p. 412 ff., where are given the opinions of Pfleiderer, Pictet, Roth, Scherer, and others.]
[Footnote 16: ZDMG., vi. 77: "Ein alter gemeinsam arischer [indo-iranic), ja vielleicht gemeinsam indo-germanischer oberster Gott, VarunaOrmuzd-Uranos."]
[Footnote 17: In his Science of Language, Müller speaks of the early poets who "strove in their childish way to pierce beyond the limits of this finite world." Approvingly cited, SBE. xxxii. p. 243 (1891).]
[Footnote 18: The over view may be seen in Müller's Lecture on the Vedas (Chips, I. p. 9): "A collection made for its own sake, and not for the sake of any sacrificial performance." For Pischel's view compare Vedische Studien, I. Preface.]
[Footnote 19: Bloomfield, JAOS xv. p. 144.]