Note 43 — Chapter I · DEFINITION OF RELIGIOUS PHENOMENA AND OF RELIGION[25]
Joseph Ward Swain translation
Barth, p. 109. In the same way, Burnouf says, "I have the profound conviction that if Çâkya had not found about him a Pantheon already peopled with the gods just named, he would have felt no need of inventing them" (Introd. à l'hist. du bouddhisme indien, p. 119).