[1407] E. Thurston, Castes and Tribes of Southern India, iv. 236, 280.
[1408] E. Thurston, Ethnographic Notes in Southern India (Madras, 1906), p. 301.
[1409] Captain Edward Moor, “Account of an Hereditary Living Deity,” Asiatic Researches, vii. (London, 1803) pp. 381–395; Viscount Valentia, Voyages and Travels, ii. 151–159; Ch. Coleman, Mythology of the Hindus (London, 1832), pp. 106–111; Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, xviii. part iii. (Bombay, 1885) pp. 125 sq. I have to thank my friend Mr. W. Crooke for calling my attention to the second and fourth of these works. To be exact, I should say that I have no information as to this particular deity later than the account given of him in the eighteenth volume of the Bombay Gazetteer, published some twenty-five years ago. But I think we may assume that the same providential reasons which prolonged the revelation down to the publication of the Gazetteer have continued it to the present time.
[1410] Monier Williams, op. cit. pp. 136 sq. A full account of the doctrines and practices of the sect may be found in the History of the Sect of the Maharajas or Vallabhacharyas, published by Trübner at London in 1865. My attention was directed to it by my friend Mr. W. Crooke.
[1411] A. Harnack, Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte, i. 321.
[1412] F. C. Conybeare, “The History of Christmas,” American Journal of Theology, iii. (1899) pp. 18 sq. Mr. Conybeare kindly lent me a proof of this article, and the statement in the text is based on it. In the published article the author has made some changes.
[1413] D. Mackenzie Wallace, Russia (London, Paris, and New York, N.D.), p. 302. The passage in the text is “a short extract from a description of the ‘Khlysti’ by one who was initiated into their mysteries.” As to these Russian Christs see further N. Tsakni, La Russie sectaire (Paris, N.D.), pp. 63 sqq. Amongst the means which these sectaries take to produce a state of religious exaltation are wild, whirling dances like those of the dancing Dervishes.
[1414] J. L. Mosheim, Ecclesiastical History (London, 1819), iii. 278 sqq.
[1415] J. L. Mosheim, op. cit. iii. 288 sq.
[1416] Mgr. Flaget, in Annales de la Propagation de la Foi, vii. (1834) p. 84. Mgr. Flaget was bishop of Bardstown, and his letter is dated May 4, 1833. He says that the events happened in a neighbouring state about three years before he wrote.