Notes
1 On Wearing Good Lenses
1 William Ward, View of History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos(5th edn rev.
3, Madras: J. Higginbotham, 1863), p. xxix.
2 Cited by Milton Singer, When a Great Tradition Modernizes(New York: Praeger,
1972), p. 17.
3 Ibid.: 18.
4 cf. J. W. McCrindle, Ancient India as Described in Classical Literature(Westminster:
Archibald Constable, 1901).
5 Walt Whitman, “A Passage to India” in Emory Holloway, ed., Walt Whitman:
Complete Poetry and Selected Prose and Letters(London: The None-Such Press,
1938), pp. 372–81.
6 Cited by Singer, op. cit., p. 26.
7 The Laws of Manu, Tr. Wendy Doniger and Brian K. Smith (New York: Penguin,
1991), pp. xx–xx1.
8 Cited by Singer, op. cit., p. 28.
9 Edward Conze, Buddhism: Its Essence and Development (London: Oxford
University Press, 1951), pp. 20–22, 40, et al.; p. 53; pp. 23, 24, et al.
10 Al-Bı ̄ru ̄nı ̄’s India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography,
Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India about AD 1030, Tr.
Edward Sachau (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1910), pp. 24, 28.
11 Ibid.: 110.
12 J. N. Farquhar, The Crown of Hinduism(London: Oxford University Press, 1913);
Raimundo Panikkar, The Unknown Christ of Hinduism(Mary Knoll, NY: Orbis
Books, 1981).
13 H. Oldenberg, Das Maha ̄ bha ̄ rata(Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht,
1922).
14 Mircen Eliade, Cosmos and History(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971
[1954]).
15 Frits Staal, “The Meaninglessness of Ritual” in Ronald Grimes, ed., Readings in
Ritual Studies(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996), pp. 483–94.
16 Caroline Humphrey and James Laidlaw, The Archetypal Actions of Ritual(Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1994), Chapter 4.
17 Arjun Appadurai, “Kings, Sects and Temples in South India, 1350–1700 AD” in
Burton Stein, ed., South Indian Temples(Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1978),
pp. 47–74.