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Pierre Loti
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“And now I salute thee with awe, with veneration, and wonder, ancient India, of whom I am the adept, the India of the highest splendor of art and philosophy. May thy awakening astonish the Occident, decadent, mean, daily dwindling, slayer of nations, slayer of Gods, slayer of souls, which yet bows down still, ancient India, before the prodigies of thy primordial conceptions!”
Pierre Loti (1850–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: attributed and quoted in Josyer, G R. Sanskrit Civilization, International Academy of Sanskrit Research. Mysore 1966 p. 1 also quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents …