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| "In the English-speaking world the strongest Indian influence was felt in America, where Emerson, Thoreau and other New England writers avidly studied much Indian religious literature in translation, and exerted immense influence on their contemporaries and successors, notably Walt Whitman."—A.L. Basham, from The Wonder That Was India Check out the Student Site by using the navigation bar at the left. At the student site you'll find Internet Activities and Self-Tests for this unit. |
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| Comparing Literary Works | |||
| Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, translator | from the Rig Veda | ||
| Creation Hymn | Hymn | 165 | |
| Night | Hymn | 166 | |
| Comparing Literary Works | |||
| R.K. Narayan, reteller | from the Mahabharata: Sibi | Epic | 174 |
| Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, translators | from the Bhagavad-Gita: The Yoga of Knowledge | Epic | 182 |
| R.K. Narayan, reteller | from the Ramayana: Rama and Ravana in Battle | Epic | 190 |
| Arthur W. Ryder, translator | from the Panchatantra: Numskull and the Rabbit | Fable | 204 |