Indian Epigraphy c13.10
Indian Epigraphy c13.10
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c13.10
⁴ The section is in the form of a dialogue between Bhīṣma and Yudhiṣṭhira, while it contains smaller dialogues such as that between Bṛhaspati and Indra. A large number of stanzas from this section are quoted by Hemādri in the Dānakhaṇḍa (of his Caturvargacintāmaṇi), Banaras, Vol. II, pp. 477 ff. Some scholars think that the stanzas quoted in inscriptions belonged to a recension of the Mahābhārata, which is now lost (IHQ, Vol. III, p. 432). The Itihāsamuccaya (cf. XIX, 38-39, 44, 52), stated to have been composed in verses taken from the Mahābhārata, has some of these stanzas (IHQ, Vol. VI, p. 777).