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[Footnote 23: The list given above (p. 464) of the 'thrice three names' is made eight by suppressing Kum[=a]ra, and the 'eight names' are to-day the usual number.]
[Footnote 24: Ç[=a]nkh. (K[=a]nsh.) Br. vi. 1.]
[Footnote 25: The Brahmanic multiple by preference is (three and) seven (7,21,28,35), that of the Buddhist, eight. Feer, JA., 1893, p. 113 ff., holds the Svargaparva of the epic to be Buddhistic on account of the hells. More probably it is a Çivaite addition. The rule does not always hold good, for groups of seven and eight are sometimes Buddhistic and Brahmanic, respectively.]
[Footnote 26: Leumann, Rosaries.]
[Footnote 27: Friederich,; JRAS. viii. 157; ix. 59. The only established reference to Buddha on the part of Brahmanism, with the exception of late Pur[=a]nas of uncertain date, is after Kshemendra (1066 A.D.). Compare Holtzmann, S. Geschichte, p. 103.)
[Footnote 28: Na tat parasya sandadhy[=a]t pratik[=ulla[.m] yad [=a]tmanas. This is a favorite stanza in the epic, and is imitated in later literature (Sprüche, 3253, 6578, 6593).]
[Footnote 29: Burnell in the Indian Antiquary, second and following volumes; Swanston, JRAS. 1834; 1835; Germann, Die Kirche der Thomaschristen.)
[Footnote 30: Above, cited from Hardy.]
[Footnote 31: Some of the multitudinous subcastes occasionally focus about a religious principle to such an extent as to give them almost the appearance of religious devotees. Thus the Bhats and Ch[=a]rans are
