The Religions of India: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris JastrowHopkins, Edward Washburn
Religion
The Religions of India: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
Hopkins, Edward Washburn
India -- Religion
[Footnote 21: This religious phase is often confounded
loosely with pantheism, but the distinction should be
observed. Parkman speaks of (American) Indian 'pantheism';
and Barth speaks of ritualistic 'pantheism,' meaning thereby
the deification of different objects used in sacrifice (p.
37, note). But chrematheism is as distinct from pantheism as
it is from fetishism.]
[Footnote 22: Some seem to be old; thus Aramati, piety, has
an Iranian representative, [=A]rma[=i]t[=i]. As masculine
abstractions are to be added Anger, Death, etc.]
[Footnote 23: Compare iv. 50; ii. 23 and 24; v. 43. 12; x.
68. 9; ii. 26. 3; 23. 17; x. 97. 15. For interpretation
compare Hillebrandt, _Ved. Myth._ i. 409-420; Bergaigne, _La
Rel, Vèd._ i. 304; Muir, OST, v. 272 ff. (with previous
literature).]
[Footnote 24: _Mbh[=a]_.i. 74. 68. Compare Holtzmann, ZDMG.
xxxiii. 631 ff.]
[Footnote 25: i. 89. 10: "Aditi is all the gods and men;
Aditi is whatever has been born; Aditi is whatever will be
born."]
[Footnote 26: _Henotheism in the Rig Veda_ (Drisler
Memorial).]
[Footnote 27: Ex. xv. 11; xviii. 11.]
[Footnote 28: RV. x. 114. 5; i. 164. 46; AV. iv. 16. 3.]
[Footnote 29: Bloomfield, JAOS. xv. 184.]
[Footnote 30: "Desire, the primal seed of mind," x. 129. 4.]
[Footnote 31: x. 72 (contains also the origin of the gods
from Aditi).]
[Footnote 32: x. 90, Here _chand[=a][.m]si_, carmina, is
probably the Atharvan.]
[Footnote 33: Rudras, Vasus, and [=A]dityas, the three
famous groups of gods. The Vasus are in Indra's train, the
'shining,' or, perhaps, 'good' gods.]
[Footnote 34: ii. 33. 13; x. 100. 5, etc. If the idea of
manus=bonus be rejected, the Latin _manes_ may be referred
to _m[=a]navas_, the children of Manu.]
[Footnote 35: Or: "in an earthly place, in the atmosphere,
or," etc.]
[Footnote 36: That is where the Fathers live. This is the
only place where the Fathers are said to be _náp[=a]t_
(descendants) of Vishnu, and here the sense may be "I have
discovered _Náp[=a]t_ (fire?)" But in i. 154. 5 Vishnu's
worshippers rejoice in his home.]
[Footnote 37: Or: "form as thou wilt this body (of a corpse)
to spirit life."]
[Footnote 38: x. 56. 4; otherwise, Grassmann.]
[Footnote 39: vi. 73. 9 refers to ancestors on earth, not in
heaven.]
[Footnote 40: Compare Muir, OST. v. 285, where i. 125. 5 is
compared with x. 107. 2: "The gift-giver becomes immortal;
the gift-giver lives in the sky; he that gives horses lives
in the sun." Compare Zimmer, _Altind. Leben_ p. 409; Geiger,
_Ostiran. Cultur_, p. 290.]
[Footnote 41: x. 88. 15, word for word: "two paths heard of
the Fathers I, of the gods and of mortals." Cited as a
mystery, Brih. [=A]ran. Up. vi. 2. 2.]
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