The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies v4.c22.78

v4.c22.78

Parallels between Indian and Greek philosophy are well worth drawing, but it may be doubted whether it is wise thence to proceed to deduce borrowing on either side. The parallelism of Vedānta and the Eleatics and Plato is worth notice, but it is no more than that, and the claim that Pythagoras learned his philosophical ideas from India though widely accepted rests on extremely weak foundations. The attempt to prove a wide influence of the Sāmkhya on Greece depends in part in the belief in the very early date of the Sāmkhya, and if, as