Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champa; Vol. II: Suvarnadvipa) v2.c13.85
Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champā; Vol. II: Suvarṇadvīpa) v2.c13.85
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In all these cases the similarity that undoubtedly exists may be explained by supposing either that India derived the practices from Indo-nesia or that Indo-nesia derived them from India. The recent discoveries at Mohenjo-daro,¹ however, prove the existence of the cult of Liṅga and Yoni in the Indus Valley at least in the beginning of the third millenium B. C. Thus the migration of the cult towards the east seems most probable. Considering the whole course of Indian history it seems more probable that the migration of the people and ideas was generally from India towards the east, and no tangible evidence has yet been obtained that the process was just the reverse. On the whole, therefore, the views of Schmidt and Sylvain Lévi appear far more reasonable than those of Hornell and Hutton.