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[Footnote 93: Weber, Janm[Fa][s.][t.Jam[=i), pp. 259, 318. Weber describes in full the cult of the "Madonna with the Child," according to the Pur[ra]nas.]
[Footnote 94: On the subsequent deification of the Pandus themselves see 1A. VII. 127.]
[Footnote 95: Hence the similarity with Herakles, with whom Megasthenes identifies him. The man-lion and hero-forms are taken to rid earth of monsters.]
[Footnote 96: Greek influence is clearly reflected in India's architecture. Hellenic bas-reliefs representing Bacchic scenes and the love-god are occasionally found. Compare the description of Çiva's temple in Orissa, Weber, Literature, p. 368; Berl. Ak., 1890, P, 912. Çiva is here associated with the Greek cult of Eros and Aphrodite.
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CHAPTER XVII. MODERN HINDU SECTS.[1]
Although the faith of India seems to have completed a circle, landing at last in a polytheism as gross as was that of the Vedic age, yet is this a delusive aspect, as will appear if one survey the course of the higher intellectual life of the people, ignoring, as is right, the invariable factor introduced by the base imaginings of the vulgar. The greater spirituality has always expressed itself in independent movement, and voiced itself in terms of revolution. But in reality each change has been one of evolution. To trace back to the Vedic period the origin of Hindu sectarianism would, indeed, be a nice task for a fine scholar, but it would not be temerarious to attempt it. We have failed of our purpose if we have not already impressed upon the reader's mind the truth that the progress of Brahmanic theology (in distinction from demonology) has been one journey,
