Canto XIII
The Cantos
“From north to south, from east to west.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
First Week, Second Day. Compare: "From north to south, from east to west", William Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale, act i. sc. 2.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) Welsh journalist and explorer
Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor to Leopold II. https://archive.org/details/briefofhenryikow00kowa/page/28/mode/2up
“No material culture is found to move from west to east across the Indus.”
Jim G. Shaffer (1944) American archaeologist
in the relevant time period <br class="br">Source: Jim Shaffer. Personal communication (to K. Elst) during the 1996 Indus-Saraswati conference in Atlanta GA., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate https://web.archive.org/web/20100412074243/http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ait/ New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
Jayant Narlikar (1938) Indian physicist
His scientific explanation with regard to the position of sun closer to the west horizon, and the sun was going up, which he had noticed.
When Prof Jayant Narlikar saw the sun rise in the west
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Letter to Frederick Ayers (5 May 1943), published in The Patton Papers 1940-1945 (1996) edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 243
William Sharp (writer) (1855–1905) Scottish writer
From the Hills of Dream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
The Island (1823), Canto II, Stanza 19.
Dan Quayle (1947) American politician, lawyer
All three of the above are from "Future Quayle Quotes We Can Expect to Hear" by Al Jaffee, in MAD magazine, (October 1991), pp. 10–11
Cited in [John Kerry or George W. Bush Misquotes, http://www.snopes.com/quotes/candidate.asp, snopes.com, 2008-12-31, 2004-09-22, Barbara Mikkelson]
Misattributed
Chanakya book Arthashastra
Chakravarti-kshetra as described by Kautilya: Arthashastra 9:1:17 (tr. L.N. Rangarajan), quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p.457
Arthashastra
