[45] Deane, p. 49.
[46] Isaac McLellan.
[47] Deane, pp. 370-373.
[48] Deane, pp. 446, 447.
[49] “Tree and Serpent-worship,” by James Fergusson, (edit. 1868.)
[50] “Asiatic Researches,” Vol. XX. p. 85.
[51] Fergusson, “Tree and Serpent-worship,” p. 93.
[52] “We know,” says Mr. Fergusson, “that two of the principal Vedic gods—Indra (the firmament) and Agni (fire)—were adopted into their pantheon by the early Buddhists, and it seems more reasonable to connect this appearance of fire with the pre-existing worship of Agni than with any far-fetched allusion to solar worship.” But what was Agni but a type of the sun?
[53] Col. Meadows Taylor, Appendix to Fergusson’s “Tree and Serpent-worship,” pp. 236, 237.
[54] John Williams, “Missionary Enterprises,” p. 48.