Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c13.82

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Śaṅkara's comy. thereon; BG VII. 20-23; YS, I. 28; Ib. II. 44. where the Tāntrika conception of Devatā is foreshadowed. Cf. Sri Aurobindo's mystic interpretation of the Vedic Devatās—Hymns to the Mystic Fire. Foreword. (Second ed. 1952). ⁶³ See Schmidt—The Origin and Growth of Religion—pp. 172 ff. esp. p. 187. For a general criticism see Karsten—The Origins of Religion, pp. 179 ff. ⁶⁴ This theory of Max Müller has now been generally rejected—see Oldenberg, RV p. 102—fn. 1; Macdonell, VM p. 10 f; Keith, RPV—I, pp. 88-9. ⁶⁵ Cf. CAH I p. 200. ⁶⁶ Cf. Gilbert Murray—Five Stages of Greek Religion, p. 64. ⁶⁷ See Oldenberg, RV pp. 60-63; Keith RPV. I p. 64. ⁶⁸ Keith, RPV. I. pp. 71 ff. ⁶⁹ Keith RPV. I. p. 243. ⁷⁰ Cf. Ib. I. p. 124ff.