[Footnote 65: All this erotic vulgarity is typical of the
common poetry of the people, and is in marked contrast to
the chivalrous, but not love-sick, Bh[=a]rata.]
[Footnote 66: Compare Duncker, LII^5. p. 327, More doubtful
is the identification of Nysian and Nish[=a]dan, ib. note.
Compare, also, Schroeder, loc. cit. p. 361. Arrian calls
(Çiva) Dionysos the [Greek: oitou dotêra Iudêis]
(Schwanbeck, Fig. 1.).]
[Footnote 67: This remains always as Çiva's heaven in
distinction from Goloka or V[=a]ikuntha, Vishnu's heaven.
Nowadays Benares is the chief seat of Çivaism.]
[Footnote 68: The doctrine of the immaculate conception, common to Vishnuism and Buddhism (above, p.431), can have no exact parallel in Çivaism, for Çiva is not born as a child; but it seems to be reflected in the laughable ascription of virginity to Um[=a] (Civa's wife), when she is revered as the emblem of motherhood.]
[Footnote 69: In RV. v. 41. 4, the Vedic triad is Fire, Wind, and (Tr[=i]ta of the sky) Indra; elsewhere Fire, Wind, and Sun (above, p. 42), distinct from the triune fire.]
[Footnote 70: In the Rig Veda the three steps are never thus described, but in the later age this view is common. It is, in fact, only on the 'three steps' that the identity with the sun is established. In RV. 1. 156. 4, Vishnu is already above Varuna.]
[Footnote 71: Çat. Br. xiv. 1. 1. 5.]
[Footnote 72: For other versions see Mulr, Original
Sanskrit Texts, iv. p. 127 ff.]
[Footnote 73: Later interpreted as wives or eyes.]
[Footnote 74: For an epic guess at the significance of the title n[=i]laka[n.][t.]ha, 'blue-throated,' see Mbh[=a] i. 18. 43.]