The Buddha From Babylon
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by Harvey Kraft
291 The History of Herodotus edited by George Rawlinson (New York: D. Appleton and Company 1885).
292 The name Mordecai may be related to the Babylonian God Marduk, used in this story to express the rebellion of Babylon against Zoroastrian dominance.
293 In the seventh century CE Islamic Arabs founded Baghdad near this spot.