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M'Crindle, *Ancient India as Described by Classical Authors*, 5 vols., especially vol. v., *Invasion of India by Alexander*, London, 1896. Weber, *Die Griechen in Indien*, in *Transactions (Sitzungsberichte) of the Roy. Prussian Acad.*, Berlin, 1890. Sylvain Lévi, *Quid de Græcis veterum Indorum monumenta tradiderint*, Paris, 1890; also *La Grèce et l'Inde* (in *Revue des Etudes Grecques*), Paris, 1891. Goblet d'Alviella, *Ce que l'Inde doit à la Grèce*, Paris, 1897; also *Les Grecs dans l'Inde*, and *Des Influences Classiques dans la Culture Scientifique et Littéraire de l'Inde*, in vols. xxxiii., xxxiv. (1897) of *Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Belgique*. L. de la Vallée Poussin, *La Grèce et l'Inde*, in *Musée Belge*, vol. ii. pp. 126–152. Vincent A. Smith, *Græco-Roman Influence on the Civilisation of Ancient India* in *Journal of As. Soc. of Bengal*, 1889–92. O. Franke, *Beziehungen der Inder zum Westen*, *Journ. of Germ. Or. Soc.*, 1893, pp. 595–609. M. A. Stein in *Indian Antiquary*, vol. xvii. p. 89. On foreign elements in Indian art see Cunningham, *Archæological Survey of India*, vol. v. pp. 185 ff.; Grünwedel, *Buddhistische Kunst*, Berlin, 1893; E. Curtius, *Griechische Kunst in Indien*, pp. 235–243 in vol. ii. of *Gesammelte Abhandlungen*, Berlin, 1894; W. Simpson, *The Classical Influence in the Architecture of the Indus Region and Afghanistan*, in the *Journal of the Royal Institution of British* *Architects*, vol. i. (1894), pp. 93–115. P. 413: On the Çakas and Kushanas, see Rapson, *Indian Coins*, pp. 7 and 16, in Bühler's Encyclopædia, Strasburg, 1898. On the relation of Indian to Greek fables, *cf.* Weber in *Indische Studien*, vol. iii. p. 327 ff. Through the medium of Indian fables and fairy tales, which were so popular in the Middle Ages, the magic mirror and ointment, the seven-league boots, the invisible cap, and the purse of Fortunatus (*cf.* Burnell, *Sāmavidhāna Brāhmaṇa*, preface, p. xxxv), found their way into Western literature. For possible Greek influence on Indian drama, *cf.* Windisch, in *Trans. of the Fifth Oriental Congress*, part ii., Berlin, 1882. On chess in Sanskrit literature, *cf.* Macdonell, *Origin and Early History of Chess*, in *Journ. Roy. As. Soc.*, 1898. On Indian influence on Greek philosophy, *cf.* Garbe in *Sāṅkhya und Yoga*, p. 4. L. von Schroeder, *Buddhismus und Christenthum*, Reval, 2nd ed., 1898. P. 422–23: It seems quite possible to account for the ideas of the Neo-Platonists from purely Hellenic sources, without assuming Indian influence. On the relation of *Çakuntalā* to Schiller (*Alpenjäger*) and Goethe (*Faust*), *cf.* Sauer, in *Korrespondenzblatt für die Gelehrten und Realschulen Württembergs*, vol. xl. pp. 297–304; W. von Biedermann, *Goetheforschungen*, Frankfurt a/M., 1879, pp. 54 ff. (*Çakuntalā and Faust*). On Sanskrit literature and modern poets (Heine, Matthew Arnold), *cf.* Max Müller, *Coincidences*, in the *Fortnightly Review*, New Series, vol. lxiv. (July 1898), pp. 157–162.