238 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
B.C., is admitted by modern authorities to have fused together 
logic and physics, psychology, theory of knowledge and meta- 
physics, in a semi-religious synthesis. We have merely to 
recall Colebrooke’s remark that ‘the philosophy of India may 
be employed for a commentary on that of Greece’ in order 
in many cases in relation to different portions of the body of 
the animal in association with which the sign occurs. 
We may speak similarly of a svastika-cult at its climax about 
600 B.C. in the Hellenic world, to judge from the evidence of 
ses. 
The earlier Greek vases represent what may be called the 
*classical ’ phase of the svastika-cult ; for the svastika often 
figures there as the motif of the compositions whicli are 
fanciful, bespeaking what may be termed the ‘decadent’ 
hase. Decadence has already declared itself on vases 
assigned to the sixth century B.C. Corres 
the omkara-cult may be seen in the Upanishads. In the 
out of which these two religions are made. In fact if the 
Upanishads, enjoining the worship of omkara, represent a revolt 
pets 
! Traditional date, adopted by Dr. Vincent Smith in his Oxford ° 
History. 
7.€., More than a hundred years before Buddha’s death el 
Ancient India (Cambridge, 1916). p. 181. 
dates. The ideas systematically put together in the Upanishads must 
i © composed, as pointed out 
ars 
3 eg. ibid., figs. 27 
5 . 27, 28, 1 
+ e.g. ibid., figs. 147, 162, 170, 171, 172 
