Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.208

c8.208

We shall not canvass in detail the views of Barth. His theory is of a piece with the brilliant study of Senart, in which the figure of Buddha is similarly resolved into a solar type and the history of the reformer becomes a sun-myth. Dr. Keith observes,³ “It hardly seems possible to ascribe to Kṛishṇa an original solar character. His name tells seriously against it: the ‘dark sun’ requires more explanation than it seems likely to receive.”