* Note: Modern discoveries give no confirmation to this suspicion.

The character of Indian science, as well as of their literature and mythology, indicates an original source.
Grecian art may have occasionally found its way into India.

One or two of the sculptures in Col.

Tod's account of the Jain temples, if correct, show a finer outline, and purer sense of beauty, than appears native to India, where the monstrous always predominated over simple nature .-- M.] [Footnote 3611: This rite is so curious, that I have subjoined the description of it:-- When these (the exorcisers, the Shamans) approached Zemarchus, they took all our baggage and placed it in the centre.

Then, kindling a fire with branches of frankincense, lowly murmuring certain barbarous words in the Scythian language, beating on a kind of bell (a gong) and a drum, they passed over the baggage the leaves of the frankincense, crackling with the fire, and at the same time themselves becoming frantic, and violently leaping about, seemed to exorcise the evil spirits.