^{page 373 note 1} Araṇya-kāṇḍa, canto 54, vv. 13 ff.

^{page 374 note 1} Sir George Grierson tells us that the year A.D. 1639 is implied in the text, JRAS., 1901, p. 607.

^{page 374 note 2} My own dates for Rāmānanda's life are A.D. 1400–70 ; and at this point they are significant for this reason, that no scholar will be found to propose later dates.

^{page 374 note 3} The date is A.D. 1574 ; Grierson I.A., xxii, 93.

^{page 377 note 1} Sītā is identified with prakṛiti and māyā in the much earlier Rāma-pūrva-tāpanīya Up., 17, 24–6, 61, 89, and in the Rāma-uttara-tāpanīya Up. (Deussen, Sechzig Upanishad's des Veda, pp. 807, 808, 813, 817, 821). Indeed, the same essential theology can be traced in these Upanishads, in the Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa and in the Rāma-charit-mānas.

^{page 377 note 2} IV, iv. 31.

^{page 378 note 1} Published by Seth Chhoṭelāl Lakshmīchand, Fyzabad. Śiva and Pārvatī appear at the beginning, but the work is a dialogue between Agastya and Sutīkshṇa, and deals almost exclusively with ritual. A small handbook for Rāmānandī pūjārīs is published both in Sanskrit and Hindi, the Śrīrāmārchana Paddhati. The publisher is Seth Chhoṭelāl.

^{page 378 note 2} Published at the Gokuldāsjī Ranahar Pushṭakālay, Dākar, near Ānand, Gujarāt, and also at the Jñānabhāskar Press, Barabaṅki.