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INTRODUCTION
Intro. P. XIV. “There were gymnosophists or naked saints in India, but they were not Buddhists."
II. Ancient India as described by Magasthenes and Arrian (1887).
Page 104. “ Philosophy, then with all its blessed advantages to man, flourished long also among the Indians, the gymnosophists."
P. 105. Sarmanes called Germanes by Strabo and Sumarians by Parphyrius, are the ascetics of a different religion, and may have belonged to the sect of the Jains or to another.
Page 115. When Alexander arrived at Taxila, and saw the Indian gymnosophists (Jain Munis), a desire seized him to have one of these men brought into his presence. The oldest of these sophists with whom the others lived as disciples with a master Daulanus by name, not only refused to go himself, but prevented the others going. He is said to have won over Kalanus one of the sophists of the place.
P. 122. Socrates speaks of the soul as at present confined in the body as in species of prison. This was the doctrine of Pythogoras, even in its most striking peculiarities, bears such a close resemblance to the Indians as greatly to favour the supposition that it was directly borrowed from it. There was even a tradition that Pythogoras had visited India.
III. Science of Comparative religions by Major General J.G.R. Forlong, F.R.S.E., F.R.A.S.M.A.I. etc. (1877).
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