The grand poetry of the Vedas, the Epies and Dramas of the succeeding epochs, the religious and philosophical speculations, the learned grammatical analysis of Panini and Patanjali, all the rich and brilliant intellectual achievements of ancient Indians, akin to the Greeks and in many ways no less richly endowed, remained a closed book to the foreigners until the Indian expedition of Alexander, the Great . it offered the first opportunity for the closely ...
