[528] The various notices in European classical authors as well as in the Sinhalese chronicles prove this.
[529] Except in the first chapter.
[530] A complete list of them is given in Foulkes, Catechism of the Shaiva religion, 1863, p. 21.
[531] Tamilian Antiquary, 3, 1909, pp. 1-65.
[532] Edited and translated by Pope, 1900.
[533] Established opinion or doctrine. Used by the Jains as a name for their canon.
[534] Thus the catechism of the Śaiva religion by Sabhapati Mudaliyar (transl. Foulkes, 1863) after stating emphatically that the world is created also says that the soul and the world are both eternal. Also just as in the Bhagavad-gîtâ the ideas of the Vedanta and Sâṅkhya are incongruously combined, so in the Tiruvaçagam (e.g. Pope's edition, pp. 49 and 138) Śiva is occasionally pantheized. He is the body and the soul, existence and non-existence, the false and the true, the bond and the release.
[535] E.g. Hymn vi.
[536] Pope's Tiruvaçagam, p. 257.
[537] Yet I have read that American revivalists describe how you play base ball (an American game) with Jesus.