4 भारतीय साम्राज्य. [ भाग सुमारास, इ० स० पूर्वी ३२७ वर्षी, किंवा त्या इकडील माहितीविषयीं तिकडील लोकांनी जे ग्रंथ लिहिलें ते ग्रीक भाषेत होते. यामुळे, भूगोल विषयक वगैरे जीं जीं नांवें संस्कृतांत प्रचारांत असलेली त्यांनीं टिपून ठेविलीं, त्यांचें अन्य भाषेत रूपांतर होऊन, तीं तशा अपभ्रष्ट स्थितीतच दृष्टिगोचर होतात. उदाहर- णार्थ, कुभा नदीचा ग्रीक भाषेत कोफेन असा अपभ्रंश झाला, आणि त्याच नदीला हल्लीं काबूल असे म्हणतात. आतां, अशा प्रकाच्या सत्यान्वेषणपराङ्मुख आणि मागील पृष्ठावरून पुढे चालू. there really is no trace whatever of any foreign in- fluence in the language, the religion, or the cere- monial of the ancient Vedic literature of India. As it stands before us now, so it has grown up, pro- tected by the mountain ramparts in the North, the Indus and the Desert in the West, the Indus or what was called the Sea in the South, and the Ganges in the East. It presents us with a home-grown poetry and a home-grown religion; and history has preserved to us at least this one relic, in order to teach us what the human mind can achieve if left to itself, surrounded by a scenery and by conditions of life that might have made man's life on earth a paradise, if man did not possess the strange art of turning even a paradise into a place of misery. ( What can India teach us ? P. P. 28-173-174-139-140.)
