Originally posted by karoly aczel
I really dont know how to approach this question, suffice to say I have great respect for Pythagoras and the other Greek 'democrats'. Any help Blackbeetle?
Thales offered that water is the material cause of all things, but the idea of primeval waters as the origin of the universe is of Vedic origins.
On the other hand the teachings of That Man and the Indian philosophy are similar. Sir William Jones (Works, iii. 236), Colebrooke (Miscellaneous Essays, i. 436 ff.), Garbe (Philosophy of Ancient India, pp. 39 ff), Schroeder (Pythagoras und die Inder), Hopkins (Religions of India, p. 559 and 560), Macdonell (Sanskrit Literature, p. 422) and Winternitz (Visvabharati Quarterly Feb. 1937, p. 8) among else testify to the Indian inspiration of Pythagoras;
Methinks Orphism, Pythagorean philosophy, Neo-Platonism and Stoicism amongst else are of Samkhya-Vedanta thought of India origin. Brahmins and Buddhists were in Greece before Plato; a Greek book about India was probably written by Scylax, a Greek captain commissioned by Darius to explore the course of the Indus about 510BC according to Herodotus iv. 44
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