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, D 2