Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit, Being the Hitopadesa

From the INTRODUCTION. In the family of languages to which English belongs, the. Indo-European Family, Sanskrit is eldest brother. The parent language was spoken in a remote prehistoric time by a people living somewhere about the five rivers of the Punjaub. By migrations of that people westward there were afterwards established all the nations of the Iranian, Slavonic, Celtic, Teutonic and Classical stocks. The parent language, Aryan, has itself long since been lost; but its words, ' subjec...