[869] “Progress of Religious Ideas through Successive Ages,” vol. i., p. 17.
[870] “La Bible dans l’Inde.”
[871] “La Bible dans l’Inde.”
[872] “Presbyterian Banner,” December 20, 1876.
[873] “La Bible dans l’Inde.”
[874] See Max Müller’s “Lecture on the Vedas.”
[875] See Roth’s “The Burial in India;” Max Müller’s “Comparative Mythology” (Lecture); Wilson’s article, “The Supposed Vaidic Authority for the Burning of Hindu Widows,” etc.
[876] Bunsen gives as the first year of Menes, 3645; Manetho as 3892 B.C. “Eqypt’s Place,” etc., vol. v., 34; Key.
[877] Louis Jacolliot, in “The Bible in India,” affirms the same.
[878] Purana means ancient and sacred history or tradition. See Loiseleur Des-longchamp’s translations of “Manu;” also L. Jacolliot’s “La Genèse dans l’Humanité.”