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It would be easy to multiply examples from this author, and to add others, at least as striking from his contemporaries, but I hold my hand. The argument is not one which can be made any stronger by an indefinite multiplication of individual instances, if the first fail to convince. Nor indeed has it been my object to convince others of the truth of an hypothesis which is still to my own mind little better than an hypothesis that may be worthy of consideration. I have desired here merely to call attention to what appears to me to be a marked resemblance, and to the conclusion which it is possible to draw from that resemblance, if it be once granted, as I think it must, that the writers of the Indian renaissance period were not outside the all-embracing influence of Greek letters.
निशापि वासरेण सह मिश्रतामेति । ज्योत्स्नाप्यन्धकारमनुवर्तते । छायापि प्रदीपाभिमुखमवतिष्ठते । तडिदपि जलदे स्थिरतां व्रजति । जरापि यौवनेन संचारिणी भवति । किं वा तस्य दुःसाध्यमपरम् |- (Kadambari, p. 157 . )
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