Jeffrey Brodd (2003), World Religions: A Voyage of Discovery, Saint Mary's Press, p. 45, ISBN9780884897255: '[..] many gods and goddesses (traditionally 330 million!) […] Hinduism generally regards its 330 million as deities as extensions of one ultimate reality, many names for one ocean, many «masks» for one God.'
Joe David Brown; Time-Life Books (1961), Joe David Brown (ed.), India, Time, Inc.: «Though the popular figure of 330 million is not the result of an actual count but intended to suggest infinity, the Hindu pantheon in fact contains literally hundreds of different deities […]»
