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Élisée Reclus (1830 - 1905) also known as Jacques Élisée Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer, who wrote thus in his 19-volume masterwork La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes ("Universal Geography"):
"Not only in India and to the Hindus is Indraprastha, a name of reverence; for away in distant Cambodia, the people believe that they are descended from Indians who immigrated into the Southern peninsula from the far off banks of the Jamuna, and the stupdendous remains of Angkor and Battanbang, near the great lake of Tonle Sap, point unmistakenly to Hindu origin and bear silent witness to the existence in the remote past, of a powerful and flourishing kingdom of Indian origin."

(source: The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India - By John Campbell Oman p. 1 - 6 and p. 94).

"The Indian epics are precious relics of the spring time of Eastern thought, revealing a new singularly fascinating world, which refers every remarkably from that depicted in the epic poetry of Western lands."

"The Ramayana and Mahabharata structures are so colossal, so composite and in many respects so beautiful ..."

(source: The Great Indian Epics: the stories of Ramayana and Mahabharata - By John Campbell Oman p. 2 - 11).