Ray (stingray.bsky.social)

assimilated into Hindu solar sects, and were able to precisely because of the pre-existing similarities between the two. They became a relatively powerful group, too, being accepted as Brahmin priests and securing many prominent temples & patrons.

He cites the similar sacrificial rituals, etc. He may have had knowledge of the Zoroastrians who lived in NW S. Asia. He wasn't wrong about the similarities. In fact, the administrators of many of the major solar temples across northern S. Asia were Zoroastrian solar priests who

In the course of arguing that the Vedic religion is false, 6th C Buddhist philosopher Bhaviveka notes its many similarities w the "mleccha" (barbarian) "Maga" religion (as in Magi, as in Zoroastrianism), inadvertently coming close to realizing the two have a common origin