Note 1409 — Chapter VII · INCARNATE HUMAN GODS

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.