A History of Sanskrit Literature c36.12

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Eagle and tortoise, fable of, 355. Eastern Hindī, source of, 32. Eastern Prākrit, 27, 28. Eastern school of Prākrit grammarians, 33, 433, 434. Egypt, possible influence on India, 367, n. 1, 517; account-keeping in, xxiv, n. 1. Elephant flesh, eating of, in Buddhist Tantric ritual, 496. Elevation (*udārata*, *udāratva*), 374, 377, 390. Elixirs, 511. Elks in Black Forest (Caesar, *De Bello Gallico*, vi. 27), 356. Emboxing of stories within stories, 244, 245, 255, 258, 319, 320, 367, n. 1. Emotion (*bhāva*), 63, n. 3, 92, 373. Encyclopaedic learning, characteristic of Kāvya writers, 348. English, as a vernacular, xxvi. Entering another's body, *motif*, 343. Epanthem, 523. Ephesos, story-tellers of, 367. Epic, 12, 13, 46, 47, 93; see also *Mahābhārata* and *Rāmāyaṇa*. Epics, as aristocratic literature, 13. Epigrammatic style, characteristic of Flavians and Kāvya, 348, 349. Epigrams, 208, 209. Equal pairing (*tulyayogitā*), 213, 380, 399. Erasistratos, Greek physician, 514. Étienne of Bourbon, 362. Etymology, 212. *Euphues*, by Lyly, 370. Euripides, Greek tragedian (480–406 B.C.), 195. Exaggeration, 97, 212. Exhaustive statement (*parisaṁkhyā*), 313. Explicitness of sense (*arthavyakti*), 50, 374, 390. Expression of pleasure (*preyas*), 380, 382, 389. Extempore verse, 80, 344. Eye-washes and salves, treatise on, 509.