India as Pangaea

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What flows from India is more than streams,

The Ganga and Yamuna, more than these.

As if the universe arose from dreams,

The world of culture, West and Japanese,

The Chinese and the plays of Shakespeare, all

Of culture courses from the Indus mind.

Philosophy and mathematics sprawl

From there.  The mysticisms all are signed

In Sanskrit or its oldest glowing genes.

The arts and language of the thinking world,

The music and religions and the scenes

Of our imaginations came from there unfurled.

  Italian art and German mystic thought

    And Einstein India at least have taught.

~ Phillip Whidden