"For example, Apollonius of Tyna, the great sage of the Greek world who is reputed to have come to India to meet its sages, is mentioned just to be told that his biography by Philostratus is "legendry". There is nothing improbable in a saint of the Greek world visiting India, but even if the biography is legendry, it is known to have been written by 220 AD, and even as a legend it is a good witness and tells us where India stood in the estimation of Greek sages and philosophers of an early date. It tells us that the Pythagoreans of Greece and the Naked Philosophers of Egypt had derived their doctrines from the "Wise men of India"."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ram_Swarup
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Ram Swarup
139 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Ram Swarup →
Related Quotes
"One of the most important thought leaders of the Hindu revivalist movement..."
"The importance of Sitaram Goel's and Ram Swarup's work can hardly be over-estimated. There is no doubt that future te…"
"I read with great interest Sri Rain Swarup’s scholarly paper on the intimate connection, amounting almost to identity…"
"It is indeed a strange sect of Islam which claims for itself a founder other than Muhammad and a scripture other than…"
"In 1982, Ram Swarup (1920–1998) established Voice of India, a publishing house that over the next decades published a…"
"Gandhi can be credited with having established and/​or popularized many of the basic arguments against conversion to …"
"What an irony it is. “These books are sacred’—that is the refrain about the Quran and the Hadis compilations. Until y…"
"A representative of India's rishi tradition in the modern age."
"To early European writers, it did not occur to regard Sikhism as different from Hinduism, an observation which agreed…"
"Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel were witnesses to the untiring aggression against Hinduism by Christian missionaries, th…"