[6] "The gods of ocean, air and fire, and the judge of the lower regions respectively" (Rev. John Davies).
[7] The "Bhagavad Gîtâ," translated by the Rev. J. Davies, M.A.
[8] The Karma was not a soul. What it was is, according to our authorities, very difficult for the Western mind to conceive. But its practical effect was, that on the death of the imperfect man, another finite existence of some sort necessarily took his place. But this new finite existence was not the former man. It is only on the death of him who has attained Nirvana that Karma ceases to act, and no new finite existence takes his place.
[9] See Prof. W. Max Muller, on "Egypt," in the Encyc. Biblica.
[10] "Capability of walking home without help," is the limit quaintly fixed by the poet. To our modern feeling it seems rather wide. Yet, practically, it is the limit professedly observed by our publicans in serving their customers.
[11] Karsten, Xenophanis Reliquiae, p. 68 (Amsterdam, 1830). Both the paraphrase and occasional translations which I give are of course free; but I think the spirit and meaning are preserved.
CHAPTER II
POST-CHRISTIAN PANTHEISM.