वासवदत्ता (महाकवि सुबन्धु - श्लेष-प्रधान शास्त्रीय गद्यकाव्य सान्वय सटीक)

be compared with those in the Vāsavadattā : story within story
(1. 30, 37 ; 2. 389, 405, 409, 416, 436, 438) ; love from a dream
(1. 253, 258–259, 380) ; magic steeds (1. 339, 342, 375) ; love
letters (2. 382–383 ; cf. Schlegel, ‘Feuilles d’arbre comme lettres
d’amour,’ in Mélanges Charles de Harlez, pp. 271–274, Leiden,
1896) ; and birds playing a part in affaires de cœur (2. 482). It
should also be observed that Dunlop repeatedly alludes to Indian
parallels with Occidental literature (1. 12, 64–65, 74, 76, 109–110,
210, 306, 318, 413, 459–461 ; 2. 8, 30, 49, 53–54, 81, 87–88, 90,
118–120, 127–128, 272, 509, 558–559), although the most of these
refer to the novel, or ‘short story,’ and not to the romance.
The Sanskrit Romance Compared with the Greek. The sole
national romance literature of the West which has been regarded
as connected with that of India is the Greek. The view has been
advanced by Peterson (Kādambarī, 2 ed., Introd., pp. 101–104,
Bombay, 1889, where several parallels are adduced between the
Kādambarī and Achilles Tatios), Weber (Sitzungsberichte der
Berliner Akademie, phil.-hist. Klasse, 37. 917), and Goblet
d'Alviella (Ce que l’Inde doit à la Grèce, p. 136, Paris, 1897) that
the Indian romance was a direct importation from Greece. This
hypothesis, however, is rejected by Lévi (Quid de Graecis veterum
Indorum monumenta tradiderint, p. 60, Paris, 1890) with what
seems to me to be perfect justice. It is, of course, true that many
parallels of incident and even of literary device exist between the
Sanskrit and the Greek romance. Among parallels of incident
I may note the following, restricting the list to similarities be-
tween the Greek romances and the Vāsavadattā : falling in love
from a dream (story of Zariadres and Odatis as recorded by
Athenaios, Deipnosophistai, 13. 35 ; this story is clearly of Eastern
origin ; cf. Rohde, Griechischer Roman, 2 ed., pp. 47–54, Leipzig,
1900, where the parallel with the Vāsavadattā is expressly noted ;
for dreams in general in the Greek romances see Rohde, op. cit.
pp. 508, 524, 531–533, 547, 561, 566) ; svayaṃvara, or ‘self-
choice’ of a husband (also in the story of Zariadres and Odatis ;
cf. Rohde, op. cit. p. 52) ; letters between lovers (Achilles Tatios,
Τὰ κατὰ Λευκίππην καὶ Κλειτοφῶντα, 5. 18, 20 ; Niketas Eugenîanos,
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