Reviews of the First Edition. "We never met with a volume in which there was so much of bold assertion, cleverly sustained by startling proof We have all teen tolerably familiar with a conviction of the national unity of Egypt. Greece, and India: but no one has yet so satisfactorily settled this question as Mr. Pococke. He has hit upon an intellectual California, and his ' diggins' are auriferous."—Gentleman's Magazine. "This is a work of prodigious industry and research, bold and original in its views and speculations, and daringly startling in its range of inquiry and prehistoric investigation. The author is well known as an accomplished oriental scholar, and whether. in the estimation of the learned, he may be considered to have established his general theory or not, the work claims an earnest and respectful attention."— Glasgow Citizen. "The whole of the chanters on Budhism are admirably written, replete with the most intense interest. The satisfactory dispersings of old and impenetrable mists, is something quite marvellous and mirthful. We regret that we cannot reproduce the sparkling pages, which show the corrupt forms in the Romish worship are but old Lamaic and Budhistic forms. When we add that Mr Pococke takes nearly every name of note in Grecian history—that he shows for nearly every locality in Greece a locality correspondingly named in India, possessing people of corresponding manners and religion—we surely have said enough to demonstrate that the hook must be, what it really is a rich and welcome addition to the library of every thinking man. We know of no work that has appeared within our recollection, so likely to set men thinking as the one before us."-Church and State Gazette. "Therefore we recommend Mr. Pococke's volume to the curious student as one of interest and erudition: if it fall to gain converts, if it excites many a smile, on the other band it will suggest thought and amuse the scholar."-Leader. "No one, after the perusal of Mr. Pococke's work, can doubt the substantial truth of his theory. Some of his facts and illustrations may be regarded as open to objection, but the historical value of his discoveries is placed beyond question. The whole of our ancient history will require to be rewritten. A new meaning must henceforth be attached to the word mythology. The old idea has no existence in fact Not only will this discovery effect an entire revolution in the narrative of ancient history, but a new element is introduced into the very philosophy of history itself. Now that the discovery is made, one wonders that it has been unknown for so many ages. What piles of erudite literature, extending over a period of little less than 3000 years, is consigned to the old curiosity shop by the magic wand of Mr. Pococke!"—Witness. "We are not disposed to give implicit credit to all Mr. Pococke's conjectures, nor do we think be has been invariably successful in tracing etymological affinities; but of this we feel assured that his main propositions are true-that Europe owes its present race of inhabitants, either to India or some country in the immediate neighbourhood—that the names of places and of mythical and heroic personages may be mostly explained through the Sanscrit—and that the classic Greek and Roman mythology, as well as the earlier systems of Egypt, Phoenicia, Chaldea, and Etruria, and those of the Celts, Teutons, and Scandinavians, are not pure childish fables, as some have boldly asserted, nor natural philosophy allegorized, as others have laboured to show, but history enveloped in a mythic cloud, eventually, perhaps soon, to be dissipated."—North and South Shields Gazette. INDIA IN GREECE; OR, TRUTH IN MYTHOLOGY: CONTAINING THE SOURCES OF THE HELLENIC RACE, THE COLONIZATION OF EGYPT AND PALESTINE, THE WARS OF THE GRAND LAMA, AND THE BUD'HISTIC PROPAGANDA IN GREECE. By E. POCOCKE, Esq. 10801 ILLUSTRATED BY Maps of the Punjab Cashmir, and Northern Greece. лам SECOND EDITION, WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION. LONDON AND GLASGOW: RICHARD GRIFFIN AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. 1856. ΤΟ H.'H. WILSON, M.A., F.R.S., ETC. ETC., BODEN PROFESSOR OF SANSCRIT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. SIR, The pledge made by a stranger, at a casual interview, characterised on your part by much urbanity, of distinctly tracing to their true sources the "Pilgrim Fathers" of the Hellenic Race, is thus far redeemed. To you, Sir, as the honoured Tri-cala of Oriental Literature, this Historical Sketch of the fortunes of the Western Pandions of Athens, the Hellenes or Chiefs of the Hela in Greece, the Cashmirians of Boeotia, and of the Thessalian Himalayas, is humbly inscribed by the Author, E. POCOCKE |