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lxxii; Perry, _P[=u]shan,_ in the _Drisler Memorial_; Weber, _Vedische Beitraege._] [Footnote 5: Westergaard, _Ueber Buddha's Todesjahr_.

The prevalent opinion is that Buddha died in 477 or 480 B.C.] [Footnote 6: It must not be forgotten in estimating the _broad_ mass of Br[=a]hmanas and S[=u]tras that each as a school represents almost the whole length of its period, and hence one school alone should measure the time from end to end, which reduces to very moderate dimensions the literature to be accounted for in time.] [Footnote 7: _'Rig Veda Collection'_ is the native name for that which in the Occident is called Rig Veda, the latter term embracing, to the Hindu, all the works (Br[=a]hmanas, S[=u]tras, etc.) that go to explain the 'Collection' (of hymns).] [Footnote 8: Schroeder, _Indiens Literatur und Cultur,_ p.291, gives: Rig-Veda, 2000-1000 B.C.; older Br[=a]hmanas, 1000-800; later Br[=a]hmanas and Upanishads, 800-600; S[=u]tras, 600-400 or 300.] [Footnote 9: _Principles of Sociology_, I.P.448 (Appleton, 1882).] [Footnote 10: Ib.p.

398.] [Footnote 11: Ib.p.

427.] [Footnote 12: Ib.p.


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