[63] As the context in Professor Müller’s work shows, these phrases are inaccurate. [↑]
[64] Cp. Weber, Ind. Lit., p. 289, note; and Banerjea, Dialogues on the Hindu Philosophy, p. 520, cited by Major Jacob, pp. 29–30. [↑]
[65] See Muir, Sanskrit Texts, iv, 50 (cited by Jacob, pp. 30–31), as to the Brahman view of the licence ascribed to Krishna. And see iii, 32 (cited by Jacob, p. 14), as to a remarkable disparagement of Vedism in the Bhagavat Gita. [↑]
[66] Müller, Selected Essays, ii, 363: H. H. Wilson, as last cited, ii, 368 sq. [↑]
[67] See this brought out in a strikingly dramatic way in Mr. Dennis Hird’s novel, The Believing Bishop. [↑]
[68] Cp. Dr. A. Jeremias, Monotheistische Strömungen innerhalb der Babylonischen Religion, 1904, p. 44—a very candid research. [↑]
[69] The Hammurabi Code, by Chilperic Edwards, 1904, pp. 67, 68, 70 (§§ 240, 249, 266). The invocations of named Gods by Hammurabi at the close of the code, however, suggest that the force of the word was “a God.” Cp. p. 76 with what follows; and see note on p. 93. On this question compare Jeremias, as cited, pp. 39, 43. [↑]
[70] Maspero, Hist. anc. des peup. de l’orient, 4e éd. p. 139; Sayce, Hib. Lect., pp. 121, 213, 215; E. Meyer, Gesch. des Alt., i (1884), 161 (§ 133); iii (1901), 167 sq. (§ 103). [↑]
[71] Sayce, pp. 219, 344; Lenormant, Chaldean Magic, Eng. ed. p. 127. [↑]
[72] Jastrow, Religions of Babylonia and Assyria, 1898, p. 318. [↑]