"Zimmer moves among [the myths of India] unhurriedly, with a respect that amounts to devotion. Gradually his comments bring to light the universal meanings." -- New York Times "In viewing India's art and civilization, the late Dr. Heinrich Zimmer, a man of penetrating intellect, the keenest esthetic sensibility, and a predilection for psychoanalytic methods, found unlimited material for employing all three qualities. The Indian material offered is of the best quality: the language in which it is presented is imaginative, figurative, poetic, vigorous." --W. Norman Brown.