2 Lang, “Custom and Myth,” 178.
3 Leland, “Etruscan Remains,” 9.
4 At Pushkar and Idar. Monier Williams, “Brâhmanism and Hinduism,” 566 sqq.
5 Devatâ in Sanskrit properly means “the state or nature of a deity, divinity,” without any very decided idea of inferiority. In modern usage it certainly has this implication.
6 “Panjâb Ethnography,” 113.
7 Cunningham, “Archæological Reports,” ii. 114, 342, 353; iii. 110, 112; xiii. 63; “Râjputâna Gazetteer,” ii. 160; Führer, “Monumental Antiquities,” 6, 50, 145, 286.
8 Hunter, “Orissa,” i. 188; Jarrett, “Aîn-i-Akbari,” ii. 128.
9 “Asiatic Quarterly Review,” ii. 236.
10 Sherring, “Sacred City of the Hindus,” 59, 157; Bholanâth Chandra, “Travels,” ii. 384.
11 Monier-Williams, “Brâhmanism and Hinduism,” 342.
12 Wilson, “Essays,” ii. 384.
13 Growse, “Mathura,” 180. The story of Joshua (x. 12–14) is an obvious parallel.
14 Frazer, “Golden Bough,” i. 25.
15 Blochmann, “Aîn-i-Akbari,” i. 200–266.
16 Max Müller, “Ancient Sanskrit Literature,” 53, note.
17 Hall, “Vishnu Purâna,” ii. 150; “Journal Asiatic Society, Bengal,” 1862, p. 112.
18 Tod, “Annals,” i. 597.
19 Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 130, 132, 133, 141, 157, 159, 186, 223; Elliott, “Hoshangâbâd Settlement Report,” 255; Hislop, “Papers,” 26.
20 “Folk-lore,” iv. 358.
21 Gordon Cumming, “From the Hebrides to the Himâlayas,” ii. 164; Brand, “Observations,” 126; Henderson, “Folk-lore of the Northern Counties,” 61; Tawney, “Katha Sarit Sâgara,” i. 98, 573.
22 Frazer, “Golden Bough,” ii. 234; Grimm, “Household Tales,” ii. 493, 524; Leland, “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 160; Hartland, “Legend of Perseus,” i. 99, 139, 170.
23 Knowles, “Kashmîr Folk-tales,” 3; fire is used in the same way; Temple, “Wideawake Stories,” 32, 271; “Legends of the Panjâb,” i. 42; “Folk-lore Journal,” ii. 104.
24 Campbell, “Notes,” 70.
25 i. 50.
26 Grimm, “Household Tales,” ii. 415.
27 x. 85, 5.
28 “Bombay Gazetteer,” xiii. 93.
29 “Merchant of Venice,” v. 1; “Hamlet,” iv. 7.
30 “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, February;” see other references collected by Frazer, “Golden Bough,” i. 318.
31 Mrs. Mîr Hasan ’Ali, “Manners and Customs of the Muhammadans of India,” i. 275.
32 “Folk-lore,” ii. 222; iv. 355.
33 “Institutes,” vi. 9; Wilson, “Vishnu Purâna,” 145, 275 note.
34 Ewald, “Antiquities of Israel,” 349 sq.; Goldziher, “Mythology among the Hebrews,” 63.
35 “Odes,” iii. 23, 1, 2, and compare Job xxxi. 26, 27; Psalm lxxxi. 3.
36 Lady Wilde, “Legends,” 205 sq.
37 Campbell, “Notes,” 187.
38 Sherring, “Sacred City,” 221; “Panjâb Notes and Queries,” ii. 42.
39 Hunter, “Orissa,” ii. 140.
40 Sarat Chandra Mitra, “Vestiges of Moon-worship in Bihâr and Bengal,” in the “Journal Anthropological Society of Bombay,” 1893.
41 “Folk-lore,” ii. 221; Monier Williams, “Brâhmanism and Hinduism,” 343.
42 Hardy, “Eastern Monachism,” 149.
43 “Folk-lore,” ii. 228.
44 Oppert,