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¹ We see here the influence of the doctrine of Bhakti, known to us from the Bhagavad-Gītā, and it is most probable that it was the Bhagavad-Gītā itself which influenced the development of the Mahāyāna. *Cf.* above, Vol. I, p. 431 ff; *Kern*, Manual of Buddhism, p. 122. Some scholars assume that outside influences, too, contributed towards the moulding of the Mahāyāna; but a hypothesis of this nature is not necessary, and cannot be proved. *Cf. S. Lévi*, Mahāyāna-Sūtrālaṃkāra, II, p. 16 ff.; *Kennedy*, JRAS 1902, p. 377 ff.; *Eliot*, Hinduism and Buddhism, III, p. 445 ff.; A.B. *Keith*, Buddhist Philosophy, p. 217. On the Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna in general, see *La Vallée Poussin* in ERE VIII, 1915, 330 ff. and *R. Kimura*, A Historical Study of the Terms Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna etc., Calcutta, 1927.