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ent Indian philosophy has long been recognized; and the 
receptive temperament of the early philsophers of Hellas is 
borne witness to by the traditional attribution of the travell- 
ing tendency to Greek philosophers like Thales and Pythagorus. 
Strabo, quoting from Megasthenes, notes that the opinions of 
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the world, the diffusion of the Deity through the universe.’ 
Modern scholars have acknowledged the ‘eoincidence.” Dr. 
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sphere, Parmenides is in erfect accord with the Vedanta. 
water with the similar Vedic notion. The equivalence of the 
svastika to the omkara will add to these analogies, a i 
appear to be particulary impressive when cen 
reference to’ Strabo’s quotation from Megasthenes alluded to 
above. . 
_ To the’ question : What was the significance of the vase- 
paintings? the find spots of the vases will help i 
an answer. According to Mr. Walters, ‘the great mi j 
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tuaries”+ The same scholar observes that ‘ vases ( 
vase ‘paintings exhibiting the svastika-mark as possessing ® 
religious and a spiritual significance, more i 
—a view confirmed by the a : m 
of central Italy which often bear the svastika 
other words, these paintings are realisati 
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opment, could not 
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the 4th century 
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‘ McCrindle, Ancient India, 1901, pp. 66-7- 
; 1907), pp. 34-5. 
: Garbe, Philosophy of Ancient India (Chicago, 1899), p- 33. 
Ar ramics’ in Encycl, Britt., ith 
> Ibid. 6 Wilson, op. cit , figs. 183, 
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