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 claims of both Greece and India in this respect, when he remarks:—

We cannot conclude this chapter better than sum up its substance in the words of Prof. Sachau:—

"What India has contributed reached Bagdad by two different roads. Part has come directly in translations from the Sanskrit, part has travelled through Eran, having originally been translated from Sanskrit (Pālî? Prâkrit?) into Persian, and farther from Persian into Arabic. In this way, e.g. the fables of Kālīla and Dimna have been communicated to the Arabs, and a book on medicine, probably the famous Charaka cf. "Fihrist," p. 303.