John of Damascus; or that our religion was plagiarized from that
famous Roman Catholic legend of the eighth century in which our Lord
Gautama is made to figure as a Christian Saint, better still, that the
Vedas were written at Athens under the auspices of St. George, the
tutelary successor of Theseus.
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* See Twelfth Book of Mahabharata, Krishnas fight with Kalayavana.
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For fear that anything might be lacking to prove the complete obsession
of Jambudvipa by the demon of "Greek influence," Dr. Weber vindictively
casts a last insult into the face of India by remarking that if
"European Western steeples owe their origin to an imitation of the
Buddhist topes* .... on the other hand in the most ancient Hindu
edifices the presence of Greek influence is unmistakable" (p. 274).
Well may Dr. Rajendralala Mitra "hold out particularly against the idea
of any Greek influence whatever on the development of Indian
architecture." If his ancestral literature must be attributed to "Greek
influence," the temples, at least, might have been spared.
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