Posted on: 27 November 2010

Digital Rare Book :
Hellenism in Ancient India
By Gauranga Nath Bannerjee
Published by Butterworth & Co., London - 1920


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Read Book Online : http://www.archive.org/stream/hellenisminancie00banerich#page/n7/mode/2up

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This influence can and has been overstated by many historians specially of the 'Greece is the cradle of world civilisation' variety

nice machu

looking from religion point of view.Buddha walked on water,so did Christ.500 yrs separate them.

Maybe both were metaphors.

context is as important.Buddha was a king.While Christ a carpenter,artisan.two different cultures.

and both the religions were ,so to say,in Asia.one spread this way ,the other.in certain iconographic representations,Buddha is shown as part of 'dashavtars'.