[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s5.8 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.8 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.8 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.8) ² A. \*Weber\*, Die Griechen in Indien (SBA 1890, p. 927) has raised the question whether the Milindapañha has not, perhaps, a closer connection with the Dialogues of Plato representing "so to speak, an intentional Indian counterpart to them." This is, however, unlikely, if only because the Milindapañha dialogue has so many models in the dialogues of the Upaniṣads, in the ascetic poetry of the Mahābhārata and in the Tipiṭaka, that there is no reason for supposing a Greek prototype. Neither does the Milindapañha show any trace whatsoever of a knowledge of the Greek language or of the Greek world of thought (\*cf. Garbe\*, l.c., p. 114). \*Finot\*, too, (Introduction to his French translation, p. 14) thinks that the style of the Milindapañha shows traces of Greek influence. - [Previous: v2.c19.s5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.7) - [Next: v2.c19.s5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.9) - [Up: v2.c19.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5) ## Linked texts (4) - [Milindapañha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.milindapanha) — Pāli - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Tipiṭaka (Theravāda)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada) — Pāli - [Upaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.8) · Pramāṇa