Essay name: Indian influences in the Philippines
Author:
Juan R. Francisco
Affiliation: University of Madras / Department of Sanskrit
This essay explores Indian cultural influences on the Philippines, focusing on language and literature. It aims to fill a largely unexplored gap in this area, addressing the misinterpretations from previous studies that lacked tangible evidence.
Chapter 4 - Indian Literature in the Philippines
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lel in the Vetäla stories, it may be conjectured that the
narrator knows the Vetāla tales, or that his sources may
have been influenced by this cycle of stories, unknown,
nevertheless, by the narrator of the Island tale.92
92A Note on the Phil. tale. The Philippine tale
shows hispanic elements which apparently are late interpo-
lations. Indeed, it may be seen how deep the Spanish in-
fluence has penetrated into the matrix of Phil. culture.
However, in the final analysis, after sifting out these
hispanic interpolations, it becomes evident that the tale
has very early native (and non-hispanic) antecedents.
