[Footnote 384: Vishṇu Purâṇa, V. 10, 11 from which the quotations in the text are taken. Much of it is repeated in the Harivamsa. See for instance H. 3808.] [Footnote 385: The Muttra cycle of legends cannot be very late for the inscription of Glai Lomor in Champa (811 A.D.) speaks of Nârâyana holding up Goburdhan and a Cambojan inscription of Prea Eynkosey (970 A.D.) speaks of the banks of the Yamunâ where Kṛishṇa sported. These legends must have been prevalent in India some time before they travelled so far. Some of them are depicted on a pillar found at Mandor and possibly referable to the fourth century A.D. See _Arch. Survey Ind._ 1905-1906, p. 135.] [Footnote 386: Strom, III. 194. See M'Crindle, _Ancient India_, p. 183.] [Footnote 387: Vincent Smith, _Fine Art in India_, pp. 134-138.] [Footnote 388: In the Sutta-nipâta Mâra, the Evil One is called Kaṇha, the phonetic equivalent of Kṛishṇa in Prâkrit. Can it be that Mâra and his daughters have anything to do with Kṛishṇa and the Gopîs?] [Footnote 389: Compare the Greek stories of the infant Hermes who steals Apollo's cattle and invents the lyre. Compare too, as having a general resemblance to fantastic Indian legends, the story of young Hephæstus.] [Footnote 390: Mgr. Bongard, _Histoire de la Bienheureuse Marguérite Marie_. Quoted by W. James, _Varieties of Religious Experience_, p. 343.] [Footnote 391: Viṭṭhal or Viṭṭoba is a local deity of Pandharpur in the Deccan (perhaps a deified Brahman of the place) now identified with Kṛishṇa.] [Footnote 392: _Life and Sayings of Râmakṛishṇa_. Trans. F. Max Müller, pp. 137-8. The English poet Crashaw makes free use of religious metaphors drawn from love and even Francis Thompson represents God as the lover of the Soul, _e.g._ in his poem _Any Saint._] [Footnote 393: Though surprising, it can be paralleled in modern times for Kabir (_c._ 1400) was identified by his later followers with the supreme spirit.] [Footnote 394: Mahâbhâr. Sabhâp. XIV. Vishṇu Pur. v. xxxiv. The name also occurs in the Taittirîya Âraṇyaka (i. 31) a work of moderate if not great antiquity Nâzâyanâya vidmahe Vasudevâya dhîmahi.] [Footnote 395: See. Vishṇu Pur. VI. V. See also Wilson, _Vishṇu Purâṇa_, I. pp. 2 and 17.]