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documents has gone, there is not a single instance that appears to 
me conclusive. One instance I have discussed in an early part of 
the paper. 
One word may be said as to the unfairness of denying to the 
Jewish race, during their captivity at Babylon and dispersion 
elsewhere, any influence in a religious sense on surrounding nations, 
This is too long a subject to be dwelt upon here, and I do not at 
all think myself that it would explain anything in the Bhagavad- 
Gita; but it may, perhaps, ultimately be found to explain a good 
deal in other directions. 
I would venture upon the suggestion, that the doctrines of the 
Gita may indicate a possible attempt at a compromise with 
Buddhism in some of its most attractive features, with the object 
of defeating it by setting up arival system containing some of 
those features even more vividly portrayed, as gleaned from 
Christian doctrines. 
I may add that I do not think that sufficient notice has been 
taken of the very artificial way in which Krishna’s history and 
the intricacies of his genealogy, indicating a design on the part 
of the writer in preparation for the “ mysteries ” of the Bhagavad- 
Gita, is introduced into the Mahabharata, 
