The History of Indian Literature c8.45

c8.45

Several hymns of a speculative purport in the last book of the Ṛik-Saṁhitá testify to a great depth and concentration of reflection upon the fundamental cause of things, necessarily implying a long period of philosophical research in a preceding age. This is borne out by the old renown of Indian wisdom, by the reports of the companions of Alexander as to the Indian gymnosophists, &c.