Properly speaking, the latter is dualistic.] [Footnote 8: At a later date Buddha himself is admitted into the Brahmanic pantheon as an _avatar_ of the All-god!] [Footnote 9: Sometimes regarded as one with Praj[=a]pati, and sometimes treated as distinct from him.] [Footnote 10: Thus (for the priestly ascetic alone) in M.
vi.

79: 'Leaving his good deeds to his loved ones and his evil deeds to his enemies, by force of meditation he goes to the eternal _brahma_.' Here _brahma_; but in Gautama perhaps Brahm[=a].] [Footnote 11: That is, when the latter are grouped as in the following list.

Our point is that, despite new faith and new gods, Vedic polytheism is taught not as a form but as a reality, and that in this period the people still believe as of old in the old gods, though they also acknowledge new ones (below).] [Footnote 12: Compare Manu, ix.

245: "Varuna is the lord of punishment and holdeth a sceptre (punishment) even over kings."] [Footnote 13: In new rites, for instance.

Thus in P[=a]rask.
_Grih.S_.3.7 a silly and dirty rite 'prevents a slave from running away'; and there is an ordeal for girls before becoming engaged (below).] [Footnote 14: Blood is poured out to the demons in order that they may take this and no other part of the sacrifice, _[=A]it.