Edward Pococke : India in Greece, I. 47. quoted in https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276520/mode/2up, 160
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The ancient map of Persia, Colchis,. and Armenia is absolutely full of the most distinct and startling evidences of Indian colonization, and, what is more astonishing, practically evinces, in the most powerful manner, the truth of several main points in the two great Indian poems, the Ramayana and the Mahahharata. The whole map is positively nothing less than a journal of emigration on the most gigantic scale.

— Edward Pococke

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The ancient map of Persia, Colchis,. and Armenia is absolutely full of the most distinct and startling evidences of Indian colonization, and, what is more astonishing, practically evinces, in the most powerful manner, the truth of several main points in the two great Indian poems, the Ramayana and the Mahahharata. The whole map is positively nothing less than a journal of emigration on the most gigantic scale." in the context of "Edward Pococke : India in Greece, I. 47. quoted in https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.276520/mode/2up, 160" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Edward Pococke

About Edward Pococke

Edward Pococke (baptised 8 November 1604 – 10 September 1691) was an English Orientalist and biblical scholar.