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is it a vernacular, and it is radically different from Bihari, the language of East Baiswari,” Hindus. Hinduism. See Brahma, India, Vedas. The present Hindu faith is that Neo-Brahmanism which arose out of Buddhism (see Buddha) about the 7th to the 12th century A.c. It embraced the Vedik faith and philosophy purified by Gotama, but incorporated the older nature worship of non-Aryan India. The growth of literature and art, and the writing of mediaeval Puranas, crystalised the oral legends which they somewhat refined, and filled the temples with statues and carved symbols, or reliefs representing mythical scenes. The faith became hydra-headed, and knit up with caste usages, sanctioned by codes like that of Manu, restoring all that Buddha had upset. Eighteen sacred books, of various date, included all the myths of India, and the oral teaching of earlier Brahmans superseding the little known Vedas. The great epiks (Mahabharata and Ramayana) retained their hold on the affections of the Hindus. Gods like Krishna may be traced to Vedas, others like Bhagavan were Aryanised conceptions based on older Turanian Bhuts and spirits. As we first wrote in 1880 the Aryans appropriated the legends of Turanian rulers, who did not, as Prof.