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Hinduism_ A Christian Heresy

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<strong>Hinduism</strong>: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 194<br />

The Ajantha Ellora Caves of Maharashtra were essentially Buddhist<br />

Monasteries built between the 2d century BC and the 5th century AD<br />

This inscribed Garuda column, in Besnagar near Udayagiri, was erected<br />

in honor of Vasudeva by a person named Heliodorus, who was a Bactro-<br />

Greek envoy from Gandhara to the court of Vidisha. This column was<br />

built in 113 BC. Most people try to equate Vasudeva as Vishnu simply<br />

because Garuda is considered as the vehicle of Vishnu.

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