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xxviii CONTENTS OF CHAP. XIV, XV & APPENDICES
adopted from the Gītā, and the consequent conclusion as to the date of the Gītā-PART VII :-GĪTĀ and the CHRISTIAN BIBLE-the improbability of the Gītā having adopted any principle from the Christian religion-the Christian religion is not a gradual and independent development out of the Jewish religion-opinions of old Christian scholars as to how it came into existence--the Esin sect and Greek philosophythe astonishing similarity between the Buddhist and Christian religions--but the priority in point of time of the Buddhist religion is undoubted-evidence in support of the fact that the Buddhist monks (yatin) had entered Jewish territory in ancient times—the high probability, therefore, of the elementary principles of Christianity having been adopted from Buddhism, and consequently from the Vedic religion or from the Gitā-the resulting irresistible conclusion as to the undoubted antiquity of the Gītā,
