Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.66

c8.66

Or are we in error, and is that criticism in the right which even here discovers gross deception? Must not even the name of Buddha’s native town, Kapilavatthu, excite suspicion? The abode of the Kapila, the mythical primitive philosopher Kapila, the founder of the Sânkhya school?* Why should we not seek, aye, and find, arcana of mythology, allegory and literary history in such a name? Especially when of opinion, as Senart is,† that the very existence itself of such a town is not guaranteed to us on any satisfactory evidence whatever.