Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.s20.2

c11.s20.2

The volume of polemical literature that has grown round the work is too great to be reviewed here in its entirety. Prominent among those who have stood up for the genuineness of the work and a Mauryan date for it are: Shama Sastri who discovered the book and edited and translated it (1909—15) for the first time, Jacobi, V. A. Smith, Jayaswal, Ganapati Sastri—who issued a fresh edition of the text with an excellent commentary and J. J. Meyer who translated the work into German, and more recently Breloer. On the other side we have Jolly, Keith, Winternitz, O. Stein, F. W. Thomas, E. H. Johnston. Other scholars like Hillebrandt hold that the present text contains a genuine core much overlaid with additions and emendations by later hands.