[184] Ditto, p. 62.
[185] Mr. Sellon, in the “Memoirs of the Anthropological Society of London,” vol. ii., p. 273.
[186] It should not be forgotten that the Vedic religion was not that of all the Aryan tribes of India (see Muir, op. cit., part ii., pp. 377, 368, 383), and it is by no means improbable that some of them retained a more primitive faith—“Buddhism” or “Rudraism”—i.e., Siva-ism.
[187] Op. cit., p. 62. To come to a proper conclusion on this important point, it is necessary to consider the real position occupied by Gautama in relation to Brahmanism. Burnoux says that he differed from his adversaries only in the definition he gives of salvation (du salut). “Introduction à l’Histoire du Buddhisme Indien,” p. 155.
[188] Fergusson, op. cit., pp. 67, 222, 223.
[189] See Guigniaut, op. cit., vol. i., pp. 293, 160 n.
[190] Schlagenweit, “Buddhism in Tibet,” p. 120.
[191] Higgins’ “Anacalypsis,” vol. i., p. 332, et seq. See also p. 342, et seq.
[192] Op. cit., vol. i., p. 1, et seq., 25.
[193] Dr. Hunter points out a connection between Siva-ism and Buddhism. Op. cit., p. 194.