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- As the Mahabharata resembles the Iliad in being the story of a great war fought by gods and men, and partly occasioned by the loss of a beautiful woman from one nation to another, so the Ramayana resembles the Odyssey, and tells of a hero's hardships and wanderings, and of his wife's patient waiting for reunion with him.
- Will Durant, Our Oriental heritage
- In one sense drama in India is as old as the Vedas, for at least the germ of drama lies in the Upanishads.
- Will Durant, Our Oriental heritage
- Ever since Sir William Jones translated it and Goethe praised it, the most famous of Hindu dramas has been the Sbakuntala of Kalidasa.
- Will Durant, Our Oriental heritage
- Perhaps the final stimulus to drama came from the intercourse, established by Alexander's invasion, between India and Greece.
- Will Durant, Our Oriental heritage
- Hindu literature is especially rich in fables; indeed, India is probably responsible for most of the fables that have passed like an international currency across the frontiers of the world.
- Will Durant, Our Oriental heritage
- [...] India has as rich a culture, as creative an imagination and wit and humor as any China has to offer, and that India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trigonometry, quadratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.
- The Wisdom of China and India - By Lin Yutang p. 3-4