INDIAN WISDOM

OR

EXAMPLES

OF THE

RELIGIOUS, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND ETHICAL

DOCTRINES OF THE HINDUS:

WITH A BRIEF HISTORY

OF THE CHIEF DEPARTMENTS OF SANSKRIT LITERATURE,

AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE

PAST AND PRESENT CONDITION OF INDIA,

MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL.

BY

MONIER WILLIAMS, M.A., D.C.L,

Hon. Doctor in Law of the University of Calcutta;

Hon. Member of the Bombay Asiatic Society;

Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Oriental Society of Germany;

Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

Wm. H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.

Publishers to the India Office.

1876.