[1138] Le Coq in J.R.A.S. 1911, p. 277.
[1139] Catechetic Lectures, VI. 20 ff. The whole polemic is curious and worth reading.
[1140] Alberuni, Chronology of ancient nations, trans. Sachau, p. 190.
[1141] The account in Philostratus (books II. and III.) reads like a romance and hardly proves that Apollonius went to India, but still there is no reason why he should not have done so.
[1142] He wrote, however, against certain Gnostics.
[1143] Similarly Sallustius (c. 360 A.D.), whose object was to revive Hellenism, includes metempsychosis in his creed and thinks it can be proved. See translation in Murray, Four Stages of Greek Religion, p. 213.
CHAPTER LVII
PERSIAN INFLUENCE IN INDIA
Our geographical and political phraseology about India and Persia obscures the fact that in many periods the frontier between the two countries was uncertain or not drawn as now. North-western India and eastern Persia must not be regarded as water-tight or even merely leaky compartments. Even now there are more Zoroastrians in India than in Persia and the Persian sect of Shiite Mohammedans is powerful and conspicuous there. In former times it is probable that there was often not more difference between Indian and Iranian religion than between different Indian sects.