The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c5.s2.2

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¹ We allude to the golden *purusha* which formed a part of the altar of sacrifice (*Çat.-Brahm.*, 7, 4, I., 15) and to the effigy *kṛitya* of the magic rites (*Ath. Veda*, X, 1), etc. — For what is to be understood by the Gallic *simulacra* of Cæsar (*Bell. Gall.*, VI, 4), see the article of M. S. REINACH on *L'art plastique en Gaule et le druidisme* (*Revue Celtique*, t. XIII, 1892, pp. 190 sqq..), where are cited also corresponding testimonies of Herodotus (I, 131) and Tacitus (*Germ.*, IX) as to the non-existence of idolatry among the Persians and the Germans.