ABSTRACT
As pointed out by Windisch, ‘religious logic’ requires that pious followers of particular religions try to embellish the lives of their founders as much as possible.1 As a result the stories of their lives become mythified and adorned with many kinds of legendary material and miraculous events. This tendency makes itself felt particularly in the accounts of the two most important events of their lives, namely their birth and death. This is because birth in the human form on earth involves getting stained by some kind of impurity and death is contrary to the infinity or eternity of such deified beings as founders of religions.
