were passed in a Zoroastrian environment; but until real
evidence be brought to show that Christ was in India, the
wise will continue to doubt it. As little proof exists, it
may be added, of Buddhistic influence in the making of the
Gospels. But this point is nowadays scarcely worth
discussing, for competent scholars no longer refer vague
likenesses to borrowing. Certain features are common to the
story of Christ and to the legends of Buddha; but they are
common to other divine narratives also. The striking
similarities are not found in the earliest texts of the
Southern Buddhists. [=I]ca for Jesus is modern, Weber, _loc.
cit._, p. 931.]

[Footnote 7: Elphinstone, I. pp, 140, 508; II. chap. I. The
'slave dynasty' of Kutab, 1206-1288. It was the bigoted
barbarity of these Mohammedans that drove Brahmanic religion
into the South.]

[Footnote 8: Though immediately before it the Harihara cult,
survival of Sankhyan dualism, is practically monotheistic.
Basava belongs to the twelfth century.]

[Footnote 9: The literary exchange in the realm of fable
between Arabia and later Sanskrit writers (of the twelfth
century) is very evident. Thus in Indic dress appear at this
time the story of Troy, of the passage over the Red Sea, of
Jonas, etc. On the other hand, the Arabians translated
native Hindu fables. See Weber, IS. iii. 327, _Ueber den
Zusammenhang griechischer Fabeln mit indischen_, and
_Indische Skizzen_, p. 111, and _Die Griechen in Indien_.
Arabia further drew on India for philosophical material, and
Alber[=u]ni himself translated Kapila's work (Weber,_loc.
cit_.).]

[Footnote 10: Whereby cows, snakes, cats (sacred to one of
the Civaite 'mothers'), crocodiles, monkeys, etc, are
worshipped.]

[Footnote 11: Pantheists in name alone, most of the lower
caste-men are practically polytheists, and this means that
they are at bottom dualists. They are wont to worship
assiduously but one of the gods they recognize.]

[Footnote 12: Where Brahmanism may be said to cease and
Hinduism to begin can be defined but vaguely. Krishnaism is
rank Hinduism. But Civaism is half Brahmanic. For the rest,
in its essential aspects, Hinduism is as old as the Hindus.
Only the form changes (as it intrudes upon Brahmanism).]

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