[43] Müller, Psychol. Relig., pp. 95, 97, 126; Lect. on the Vedânta Philos., 1894, p. 32. [↑]
[44] Chunder Dutt, Hist. of Civ. in Anc. India, as cited, i, 112–13. [↑]
[45] Rhys Davids, trans. of Dialogues of the Buddha, p. 166. Cp. his Buddhism, p. 143, as to Buddhist censures of an extravagant skepticism which denied every religious theory. In one of the Dialogues (ii, 25, p. 74) a contemporary sophist is cited as flatly denying a future state. Mr. Lillie, however (Buddhism in Christendom, 1887, p. 187), contends as against Professor Rhys Davids that the Upanishads were only “whispered to pupils who had gone through a severe probation.” [↑]
[46] Prof. Weber (Hist. Ind. Lit., p. 4) says the peoples of the Punjaub never at all submitted to the Brahmanical rule and caste system. But the subject natives there must at the outset have been treated as an inferior order. Cp. Tiele, Outlines, p. 120 and refs.; and Rhys Davids, Buddhism, p. 23. [↑]
[47] Cp. Weber, Hist. Ind. Lit., pp. 236, 284–85; Max Müller, Chips, i, 228–32; Kuenen, Hibbert Lectures, pp. 258–64; and the general discussion of the problem in the author’s Pagan Christs, 2nd ed. pp. 239–63. [↑]
[48] Brahmanism had itself been by this time influenced by aboriginal elements, even to the extent of affecting its language. Weber, as cited, p. 177. Cp. Müller, Anthrop. Relig., p. 164. [↑]
[49] Major Jacob, as cited, p. 12. [↑]
[50] I.e., “the enlightened,” a title given to sages in general. Weber, p. 284. [↑]
[51] Weber, Hist. Ind. Lit., pp. 179, 299; Müller, Natural Religion, p. 299. [↑]
[52] See Senart, Essai sur la légende de Buddha, 2e édit., p. 297 ff. [↑]