Footnote 1146: See Strabo, XV. 62. So, too, the Pitakas seem to
regard cemeteries as places where ordinary corpses are thrown away
rather than buried or burnt. In Dig. Nik. III, the Buddha says that
the ancient Sakyas married their sisters. Such marriages are said to
have been permitted in Persia.]

[Footnote 1147: "He who returns victorious from discussions with
Gaotama the heretic," Farvadin Yasht in _S.B.E._ XXIII. p. 184. The
reference of this passage to Buddhism has been much disputed and I am
quite incompetent to express any opinion about it. But who is Gaotama
if not the Buddha? It is true that there were many other Gautamas of
moderate eminence in India, but would any of them have been known in
Persia?]

[Footnote 1148: The inscriptions near the tomb of Darius at
Nakshi-Rustam appear to be hortatory like those of Asoka. See Williams
Jackson, _Persia_, p. 298 and references. The use of the Kharoshtri
script and of the word _dipi_ has also been noted as indicating
connection with Persia.]

[Footnote 1149: Perhaps the marked absence of figures representing the
Buddha in the oldest Indian sculptures, which seems to imply that the
holiest things must not be represented, is due to Persian sentiment.]

[Footnote 1150: Strictly speaking there is nothing final about
Maitreya who is merely the next in an infinite series of Buddhas, but
practically his figure has many analogies to Soshyos or Saoshant, the
Parsi saviour and renovator of the world.]

[Footnote 1151: See chap. XLI. p. 220.]

[Footnote 1152: See chap, on Mahayana, VI.]

[Footnote 1153: A convenient statement of what is known about this
cult will be found in Bhandarkar, _Vaishnavism and Saivism_, part II.
chap. XVI.]

[Footnote 1154: Chap. 60. 19. The work probably dates from about 650
A.D.]

[Footnote 1155: Chap. 139. See, for extracts from the text, Aufrecht.
Cat. Cod. Sansc. p. 30.]

[Footnote 1156: For Sakadvipa see Vishnu, p. II. IV. where it is
said that Brahmans are called there Mriga or Maga and Kshattriyas
Magadha. The name clearly means the country of the Sakas who were
regarded as Zoroastrians, whether they were Iranian by race or not.
But the topography is imaginary, for in this fanciful geography India
is the central continent and Sakadvipa the sixth, whereas if it
means Persia or the countries of the Oxus it ought to be near India.]

[Footnote 1157: The Garuda may itself be of Persian provenance, for
birds play a considerable part i