The Creed of Half Japan
CHAPTER IV — THE PRE-CHRISTIAN EXPANSION OF BUDDHISM

^33:2 And, significantly enough, in the neighbourhood of the ancient Pataliputra, according to the "Encyclopaedia of India."

^33:3 See Haeser, "Geschichte der Medizin," vol. i, p. 101.

^34:1 Kirchner, "Geschichte der Philosophie," p. 137.

^34:2 Mullach, "Fragments Philosophorum Graecorum," vol. ii. (Paris, 1831). Mullach gives a passage from Sextus Empiricus (adv. Math. ix. 17): Eyemeros de fesin. ote En ataktos anthrupun bios, oi perigenomenoi tun allun isxoi te kai synesi uste pros ta yp' aytun keleyomena pantas bioun, spoydazontes meizonos thaymasmou kai semnotetos tyxein, aneplasan per' aytous yperballoysan tina kai theian dunamin, entha kai tois pollois enomisthesan theoi. There is also another quotation given from Eusebius ("Praep. Evang.," ii. 59) in which Euhemerus says that there are some deities, e.g. Sun, Moon, Winds, etc., which are aidioi kai afthartoi, but that there are others who are called epigeioi theoi.

^35:1 Whilst I think we must hold most of the developed Sutras of the Mahayana (and certainly the Saddharma pundarika) to be posterior, and in some cases much posterior, to the Christian era, the process of the gradual deification of S'akyamuni may, I believe, be fairly inferred from many of the Agama Sutras which record the events of his actual life. Certainly, the sculptures, even of the earliest topes and temples of India, would have been different in style, had it not been that he, in whose honour the shrines were raised, was coming to be looked upon as more than an ordinary man.

^36:1 Diogenes Laertius, ii. 83-85, quoted by Mullach, op. cit., p. 403.

^36:2 Cf. Saddharma pundarika in "Sacred Books of the East," vol. xxi. p. 378, etc. The same is affirmed of two more of the patriarchs of the Northern Succession.

^37:1 Flinders Petrie. See Transactions of the Congress of the History of Religions (Oxford, 1908), vol. i. pp. 185 and 224.

^38:1 Cf. Ueberweg, "Hist. of Philos. Jewish Alexandrian Philosophy," sect. 63.

^38:2 Cf. Ibid.; and Haeser's, "Geschichte der Medizin," vol. i. p. 103.