THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA
poems and all kinds of monuments, palace and temples and public works, commu-nities and societies and religious orders, laws and codes and rituals, physical scienc-es, psychic sciences, systems of Yogasystems of politics and administration, arts spiritual, arts worldly, trades, indus-tries, fine crafts,— the list is endless and in each item there is almost a plethora of activity. She creates and creates and is not satisfied and is not tired ; she will not have an end of it, seems hardly to need a space for rest, a time for inertia and lying fallow. She expands too outside her borders ; her ships cross the ocean and the fine superfluity of her wealth brims over to Judaea and Egypt and Rome ; her colonies spread her arte and epics and creeds in the Archipelago; her traces are found in the sands of Meso-potamia ; her religions conquer China and Japan and spread westward as far as Palestine and Alexandria, and the figures of the Upanishads and the sayings of
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