by Heinrich Robert Zimmer ; Edited by Joseph Campbell
"In a book which is enormously scholarly, though completely unassuming in its erudition, and so persuasive through the formal beauty and clarity of its style as to make it deservedly a classic of exegetic prose, Dr. Zimmer relates the basic myths that lie behind the forms of Indian art and civilization that produced them. Dr. Zimmer ... sensed how the images, the revelations of the sages, 'were moulded into a comprehensive system of thought ascribing an order to the worlds, into an ethical regulation of human actions, and into a mighty far-spread and ancient institution called church or religion'... It is rarely in any branch of knowledge that one encounters such an illumination of the whole subject, an investigation that is as brilliant as it is profoud." - Benjamin Rowland Jr.
