The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c29.102

c29.102

But the orthodox Hindu worship, conducted under the guidance of Brahmans, and associated with sacrificial rites abhorrent to Jain and Buddhist sentiment, had never become extinct, and had at all times retained a large share of both popular and royal favour. Kadphises II, the Kushān conqueror, was himself conquered by captive India, and adopted with such zeal the worship of Siva as practised by his new subjects that he constantly placed the image of that Indian god upon his coins, and described himself as his devotee. Many other facts concur to prove the continued worship of the old Hindu gods during the period in which Buddhism unquestionably was the most popular and generally received creed.