Indian Poetry

PREFACE

_TO THE "BOOK OF GOOD COUNSELS."_

The _Hitopadesa_ is a work of high antiquity and extended popularity. The prose is doubtless as old as our own era; but the intercalated verses and proverbs compose a selection from writings of an age extremely remote. The _Mahábhárata_ and the textual _Veds_ are of those quoted; to the first of which Professor M. Williams (i...