"The Ancient and classical creations of the Sanskrit tongue both in quality and in body and abundance of excellence, i…"

"The literature of India makes us acquainted with a great nation of past ages, which grasped every branch of knowledge…"

"As the Mahabharata resembles the Iliad in being the story of a great war fought by gods and men, and partly occasione…"

"In one sense drama in India is as old as the Vedas, for at least the germ of drama lies in the Upanishads."

"Ever since Sir William Jones translated it and Goethe praised it, the most famous of Hindu dramas has been the Sbakun…"

"Hindu literature is especially rich in fables; indeed, India is probably responsible for most of the fables that have…"

"It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature, that a land so rich…"

"I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found on…"

"Human life would not be sufficient to make oneself acquainted with any considerable part of Hindu literature."

"The Mussalman invaders sacked the Buddhist universities of Nalanda, Vikramshila, Jagaddala, Odantapuri to name only a…"