Volui tibi suaviloquenti
Carmine Pierio rationem exponere nostram
Et quasi Musæo dulci contingere melle.
[21] Dr. J. Muir, in North British Review, No. xlix, p. 224.
[22] Miscellaneous Writings (Macmillan, 1861), vol. i, p. 77.
[23] But the truth is that every man is accounted a good Hindu who keeps the rules of caste and pays due respect to the Brahmans. What he believes, or disbelieves, is of little or no consequence.
[24] Yaska, probably in the fifth century B. C.
[25] Weber thinks that Christian elements may have been introduced, in course of time, into the representation.
[26] His Ramayana was written in Hindi verse in the sixteenth century.
[27] When Jhansi was captured in the times of the great mutiny English officers were disgusted to see the walls of the queen's palace covered with what they described as "grossly obscene" pictures. There is little or no doubt that these were simply representations of the acts of Krishna. Therefore to the Hindu queen they were religious pictures. When questioned about such things the Brahmans reply that deeds which would be wicked in men were quite right in Krishna, who, being God, could do whatever he pleased.
[28] Born probably in 1649.