Note 1176 — Chapter XIII · MANES AND THE MANICHAEANS (continued 2)
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Augustine, de Moribus Manichaeorum, c. X. Cf. Baur, Das Manichäische Religionssystem, pp. 248 sqq. Chavannes et Pelliot, op. cit. 1ère ptie, p. 547, n. 1, examine the question whether these are borrowed from Buddhism as F. W. K. Müller and Cumont assert, and incline to the view that Manes took them from Zoroastrianism.