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For the epic compare in general A. Holtzmann, Das Mahābhārata (Kiel, 1892–5); J. Dahlmann, Das Mahābhārata als Epos u. Rechtsbuch (Berlin, 1895); H. Jacobi, Mahābhārata, Inhaltsangabe (Bonn, 1903); E. W. Hopkins, The Great Epic of India; and India Old and New (New York, 1901). Special studies: Bühler and Kirste, Contributions to the history of the Mahābhārata (Sitz. Wien, 1892) and Die indischen Inschriften u. das Alter der ind. Kunstpoesie (ibid. 1890). Apart from the Bhagavadgītā, which has its own literature, may be mentioned *inter alia* the collection of philosophical texts of the epic by Paul Deussen and Otto Strauss, Vier philosophische Texte des Mahābhāratam (Leipzig, 1906). A special study of the Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste was published in the J.A.O.S., 1888, by the writer.