A History of Sanskrit Literature c3.15

c3.15

Discussion of the migration of fables and other literature has failed to achieve decisive results. Some stress has lately been laid on the evidence of connexions between Egypt and India contained in the *Oxyrhynchus Papyri*,⁵ but it is difficult to believe seriously that Isis was worshipped in India as Maia,⁶ as asserted with complete vagueness in the Isis litany,⁷ and Professor Hultzsch's effort⁸ to find Kanarese explanations for certain terms in the farce regarding Charition's adventures on the coast of a country bordering the Indian Ocean, are as little plausible as those of Sir G. Grierson to discover Sanskrit. It seems prima facie absurd to suppose that any Greek farce writer would trouble to embody passages in foreign speeches which would be utterly unintelligible to his audience.⁹