[83] Compare, for instance. Hit. couplet 43 = Böhtl. 3121 with the
rendering of Wilkins in Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit, London,
1888 (Morley's Univ. Lib.), pp. 41, 42. And then compare with Herder's
Zwecke des Lebens (Ged. 15).

[84] Indien, ed. Suphan, vol. 29, p. 665.

[85] "An Hafyz Gesängen haben wir fast genug; Sadi ist uns lehrreicher
gewesen." Adrastea vi. ed. Suphan, vol. 24, p. 356.




CHAPTER IV.

GOETHE.

Enthusiasm for Śakuntalā--Der Gott und die Bajadere; Der
Paria--Goethe's Aversion for Hindu Mythology--Origin of the
Divan--Oriental Character of the Work--Inaugurates the Oriental
Movement.


In _Wahrheit und Dichtung_ (B. xii. vol. xxii. p. 86) Goethe tells us
that he first became acquainted with Hindu fables through Dapper's book
of travel,[86] while pursuing his law studies at Wetzlar, in 1771. He
amused his circle of literary friends by relating stories of Rāma and
the monkey _Hanneman_ (i.e. Hanuman), who speedily won the favor of the
audience. The poet himself, however, could not get any lasting pleasure