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from the 18, h century onwards. The chapter deals with contact of India with the Greeco-Roman World. Here, the references of Megasthenes and also those by Buddhis, tex's lo westerners, the coming of Alexander and the cultural exchange that followed and references in India and Western works, become our source-material. The mutual impact of India and Greece, and Rome is divided by the author into four periods. The impact of study by christians is also discussed. The discussion shows the interaction and poses a few pioblems besoie us.
The next paper in chapter nine and relation of Greece Rome with Mauiyan India, though very well studied, need not detain us. We go to the next chapter in which the author discusses the problem of Cânakya in the Greeco-Roman tradition. This is because of the Central importance of Canakya's or Kautilya's work Aithasāstra Close contact was there between the Indian and Western worlds and that led to cultural exchange and affinity, and exhibition of mutual familiarity. Here, references to Candragupta and state of India in his days are analysed The treatment is historical also.
Chapter eleven deals with archaeological research in Soviet Central Asia and ancient Indian Civilization, i. c., the relation of the two in the Kushana period. It is a study of facts and reality and the author takes due care of his evidences. The Kushana empire was formed due to connections between the two as archaeological excavations in Central Asia reveal. The data available is described and made use of.
The Study of Indian cultuie would be incomplete without a study of Lokāyatikas atheists who most vehemently attacked brahmanisin and traditional thinking and philosopliy, even though they were, in turn, severely criticised by traditionalists. Chapter 12 refers to the contribution of Aryabhata and the Lokayatikas and also refers to the severe onslaught on their works by followers of the Vedic tradition. Even in this small chapter of eleven pages the author show a fairly good grasp over the contribution of the two, though we feel that the study and analysis demanded a loogei chapter.
With this, we come to part four of the book entitled Study of Ancient Iodian Texts". The six small chapters here, treat of a variety of texts-Prakrit and Sanskrit and also probe into the discovery of and study on Indian texts from central Asia and castern Turkestan. It is natural to state and concede that richness of a culture implies richness
