1/n They praise Greek Philosophers all the time but they praised India day & night.

Few quotes

"In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing."

2/n "I saw the Indian Brahmans living on the earth and not on it, walled without walls, and with no possessions except the whole world."

3/n "[Some] disobey the earth and sharpen knives against the animals to gain clothing and food. The Indian Brahmans disapproved of this personally and taught the Naked Philosophers of Egypt to disapprove of it too. ++

4/n ++..From there Pythagoras, who was the first Greek to associate with Egyptians, borrowed the principle. He let the earth keep living creatures, but held that what the earth grows is pure, and so lived off that because it was sufficient to feed body and soul. ++

5/n ++Clothing made from dead creatures, which most people wear, he considered impure; he dressed in linen and, for the same reason, made his shoes of plaited bark. He derived many advantages from this purity, above all that of perceiving his own soul."

6/n Quotes fro 1/n to 5/n are made by Apollonius of Tyana ( 15 -100 AD) was a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor.

7/n "This also is remarkable in India, that all Indians are free, and no Indian at all is a slave. In this the Indians agree with the Lacedaemonians. Yet the Lacedaemonians have Helots for slaves, who perform the duties of slaves; but the Indians have no slaves at all."

8/n "No Indian ever went outside his own country on a warlike expedition, so righteous were they."

The quotes in 7/n & 8/n are of Arrian, from Anabasis Alexandri, Book VII : Indica, as translated by Edgar Iliff Robson