FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Megasthenes, Fr. XLI, ed. Schwanbeck.] [Footnote 2: Epic literature springs from lower castes than that of the priest, but it has been worked over by sacerdotal revisers till there is more theology than epic poetry in it.] [Footnote 3: See Weber, _Sanskrit Literature_, p. 224; Windisch, _Greek Influence on Indian Drama_; and Lévi, _Le théâtre indien_. The date of the Renaissance is given as "from the first century B.C. to at least the third century A.D." (_India_, p. 281). Extant Hindu drama dates only from the fifth century A.D. We exclude, of course, from "real literature" all technical hand-books and commentaries.] [Footnote 4: Jacobi, in Roth's _Festgruss_, pp. 72, 73 (1893); Whitney, _Proceed. A.O.S._, 1894, p. lxxii; Perry, _P[=u]shan,_ in the _Drisler Memorial_; Weber, _Vedische Beiträge._] [Footnote 5: Westergaard, _Ueber Buddha's Todesjahr_. The prevalent opinion is that Buddha died in 477 or 480 B.C.] [Footnote 6: It must not be forgotten in estimating the _broad_ mass of Br[=a]hmanas and S[=u]tras that each as a school represents almost the whole length of its period, and hence one school alone should measure the time from end to end, which reduces to very moderate dimensions the literature to be accounted for in time.] [Footnote 7: _'Rig Veda Collection'_ is the native name for that which in the Occident is called Rig Veda, the latter term embracing, to the Hindu, all the works (Br[=a]hmanas, S[=u]tras, etc.) that go to explain the 'Collection' (of hymns).] [Footnote 8: Schroeder, _Indiens Literatur und Cultur,_ p.291, gives: Rig-Veda, 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: Ib. 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, Varuna-Ormuzd-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.]