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. . . The author shows no eagerness to find foreign influence every- where. The time indeed is now past when the European orient- alist was guided in his investigations by the belief that there was nothing great under the sun which was not Greek in its origin. But the tendency to discover outside influence where there is none in tracing the course of Indian thought has not altogether dis- appeared ; and it is accordingly a relief to find our author willing to allow that two distant communities may develop their thought on parallel lines without necessarily implying any borrowing on either side. The spirit with which he approaches the subject of his study is in general well illustrated by his defence (p. 75) of Sanskrit literature against the charge of ‘indelicacy’ brought against it by critics with insufficient imagination. We have nothing but praise for this book . . . The references given as footnotes are not numerous enough. Doubtless this is due to the fact that the book is not intended for the specialist. Yet we cannot help thinking that the insertion of more references would have greatly added to the usefulness of the volume . . . 1
1 Journal of the Karnataka Sahitya Parishat i July 1924.
