Excerpt from Bubbles of the Foam: Translated From the Original Manuscript Four things are never far from you, in Old Hindoo literature: underfoot, all around you, or away on the horizon, there they always are the Forest, the Desert, the River, and the Hills. It is never very easy, to understand the Past that really is a past: and the age Of Forests, like that Of chivalry, is gone. But in the case Of ancient India, the chief Obstacle to under standing arises from our bad habit Of always looking at the map with the North side up. Why this inveterate apotheosis of the North? Would you understand the'old Hindoos, you must turn the map Of India very nearly up side down, so as to get Peshawur at the bot tom, and the Andaman Islands exactly at the top. And then, history lies all before you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.