as matter of fact, i had read somewhere that there are only about 180,000 mentioned names in all the manuscripts including estimates on those that were lost or thougth to have been existed. (i mean you are not serious about me reading all those Puranas and Upnishads... i will be 80 before i complete reading them, even if i read them every day without sleep). my research is nothing to do with proving the claim that there actually are 330 million gods. nothing personal but i am not trying to measure the diameter of the sun with a tape. i am just trying to collect information to come to a conclusion about the sun's diameter. and i am not going average or even make scientific reasearch if a claim is true or not. i am just to going to believe that the sun is there and it has some diameter. someone calculated it to a perfection.. well very nice. i have a good info. in real sense, and many hindu scriptures suggest that 330 million is used just to sense us that evereything we see at any given time is a form of god, or at least represent. now, it would be a nice to prove if at any given time, we are abel to see 330 million things, objects with our physical eyes. may be, may be not. and if you know that hinduism is an inclusive religion, that said, it tend to accept that all other faith are okay, because it is just another way of bhakti. so, perhaps we can incorporate deities and angels of those religions as well. in my website, i have explained the criteria... extremely simple. all the names of the objects, person, names, temples etc that anyone on earth worship as a divine force - could end at 1 millions, or500k or perhaps there actually are 330 million... well you may want to call it the height of optimism... but i have nothing to gain or loss... i might just loose this interest in a few days, years... i don't know... :-)