e and do away with low superstition. Then India
also will be free to accept, as the creed of her new religion,
Christ's words, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and thy neighbor as
thyself.' But to educate India up to this point will take many
centuries, even more, perhaps, than will be needed to educate in the
same degree Europe and America.[44]

* * * * *

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Lassen interprets _ophir_ as Abh[=i]ras, at the
mouth of the Indus. The biblical _koph_ is Sanskrit _kapi_,
ape. Other doubtful equivalents are discussed by Weber,
_Indische Skizzen_, p. 74.]

[Footnote 2: The legend of the Flood and the fancy of the
Four Ages has been attributed to Babylon by some writers.
Ecstein claims Chaldean influence in Indic atomic
philosophy, _Indische Studien_, ii. 369, which is doubtful;
but the Indic alphabet probably derived thence, possibly
from Greece. The conquests of Semiramis (Serimamis in
the original) may have
included a part of India, but only Brunnhofer finds trace of
this in Vedic literature, and the character of his work we
have already described.]

[Footnote 3: Senart attributes to the Achaemenides certain
Indic formulae of administration. IA. xx. 256.]

[Footnote 4: Certain Hindu names, like those to which we
called attention in the epic, containing Mihira, _i.e.,_
Mithra; the Magas; _i.e.,_ Magi; and recommendations of
sun-worship in the Pur[=a]nas are the facts on which Weber
bases a theory of great influence of Persia at this later
period. Weber claims, in fact, that the native sun-worship
was quite replaced by this importation (_Indische Skizzen_,
p. 104). This we do not believe. Even the great number of
Persians who, driven out by Arabians, settled in Gujar[=a]t
(the name of Bombay is the same with Pumbadita, a Jewish
settlement in Mesopotamia) had no other effect on the
Brahmanic world that absorbed them (_ib._ p. 109) than to
intensify the fervor of a native cult.]

[Footnote 5: Weber ascribes to Greek influence the Hindus
first acquaintance with the planets. On a possible dramatic
loan see above, p. 2, note. The Greeks were first to get
into the heart of India (as far as Patna), and between the
court of Antiochus the Great and the king S[=a]ubhagasena
there was formal e