Digital Book :
INDIAN POETRY - Containing "The Indian song of songs" from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva. Two books from "The Iliad of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial wisdom" from The Shlokas of the Hitopadeśa, and other Oriental poems.
By Sir Edwin Arnold
Published by Kegan Paul, Trench & Trubner Co. Ltd., London - 1891.
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Sir Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia ..was supposed to have been one of the earliest works that opened the eyes of Westerners to the Buddha. Years later the late great poet Mahakavi Kumaran Asan 's epic poem "Buddha Charita' drew its inspiration from Arnold's "Light of Asia".