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The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 103 pages of information about The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany.

[177] Book of the Thousand and One Nights, by John Payne, Lond. 1894, vol. v. p. 153.

[178] Ibid. p. 168.

[179] Ibid. p. 199.

[180] In Juedische Parabeln, vol. 26, p. 359; see also Bacher, Nizamis Leben u.  Werke, p. 117, n. 4.

[181] These episodes are outlined in Hammer, Red. p. 118; see Malcolm, op. cit. i. 55, 56.

[182] We call attention to the fact that the fourth division of this collection (pp. 392-439 in our edition) is made up of poems which really belong to the Weisheit des Brahmanen.

[183] Jackson, Die iran.  Religion in Grdr. iran.  Phil. ii. pp. 629, 630.

[184] Elliot, Hist. of India, vol. v. pp. 160-175; 324-328.

[185] Elphinstone, Hist. of India, vol. ii. pp. 229-301 and note, where the legend of the queen firing silver balls is given on the authority of Xafi Xan.  Elliot, op. cit. vi. 99-101.

[186] The History of the Late Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogul, Lond. 1671, pp. 106-131.  See also Elliot, op. cit. vol. vii. pp. 220-224, and Elphinstone, op. cit. vol. ii. p. 425 seq., where a slightly different account of the battle is given.

[187] Letter to Melchior Meyr, Dec. 25, 1836, cited by C. Beyer in Nachgelassene Ged.  Fr. Rueckerts.  Wien, 1877, pp. 210, 211.

[188] Koch, Der Deutsche Brahmane, Breslau (Deutsche Buecherei, Serie iv.  Heft 23), p. 22.

[189] Ibid. pp. 18-22.  For Rumi’s influence see esp. in vol. viii. of the edition cited, pp. 544. 7, 566. 74 et al.

[190] In Ramay. i. 45, where the story of their origin is briefly given, we read that sixty kotis, i.e. 600,000,000 (a koti being 10,000,000), came forth from the sea, not reckoning their numberless female attendants.

[191] Schack, Ein halbes Jahrhundert, Stuttg.  Berl.  Wien, 1894, vol. ii. p. 41.  See also Koch, op. cit. pp. 11-13; Rud.  Gottschall, Fried.  Rueckert in Portraits u.  Studien, Leipz. 1870, vol. i. pp. 163-166; Rich.  Meyer, Gesch. der Litt. des 19 Jahrh.  Berl. 1890, p. 56.

CHAPTER IX.

HEINE.

      Becomes Interested in India through Schlegel—­Influence of
      India’s Literature on his Poetry—­Interest in the Persian
      Poets—­Persian Influence on Heine—­His Attitude toward the
      Oriental Movement.

“Was das Sanskrit-Studium selbst betrifft, so wird ueber den Nutzen desselben die Zeit entscheiden.  Portugiesen, Hollaender und Englaender haben lange Zeit jahraus, jahrein auf ihren grossen Schiffen die Schaetze Indiens nach Hause geschleppt; wir Deutsche hatten immer das Zusehen.  Aber die geistigen Schaetze Indiens sollen uns nicht entgehen.  Schlegel, Bopp, Humboldt, Frank u. s. w. sind unsere jetzigen Ostindienfahrer; Bonn und Muenchen werden gute Faktoreien sein.”

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