The Greeks in Bactria and India c16.6

c16.6

The history of the Yuga-purāṇa in modern times is peculiar. H. Kern in 1865 first brought it to notice in the preface to his edition of the Brihat Saṃhitā;⁴ he possessed a single MS, apparently rather broken, and he gave a translation⁵ of the greater part (not all) of what are §§ 5 and 7 in Jayaswal’s translation (p. 453). Of § 6 he merely said that it contains complaints against heretics, presumably Buddhist monks.⁶ Nothing more was published, and what was known of the Sanscrit text so far as it related to the Greeks was confined to these parts of §§ 5 and 7, which Weber subsequently reprinted,⁷ and to one line of § 6 which Kern had quoted; except for Lévi,⁸ § 6 has gone unnoticed, though many writers have quoted or paraphrased Kern’s translation.