Hindu Medicine c5.s2.3

c5.s2.3

German philology and taken Sanskrit only as the usual auxiliary language—he was instigated also by the conviction that in his new field the major victories were still to be won, while in the one relinquished the decisive research had already been done. But above all he was attracted by India herself, yet unknown, perhaps unknowable; he was in quest of the India of Schopenhauer.¹ The routine of editing texts, or of establishing the meaning of every single word did not satisfy Zimmer. He did not only ask, what do they say; he added a profession of faith: "This is what they state and mean—and it is true. It is the truth, though I do not understand it as yet, and feel not any too confident that I shall ever grasp its point."² Or as he formulated it at the height of his life: "The time has passed when one could hope to grasp the scope of the message of the Hindu spirit by way of a merely historical analysis and a philologically correct interpretation of words, when one could hope to penetrate into the essence of the manifestations of Hindu life through