[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Sanskrit Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.keith-1920) › c19.s1.9 # A History of Sanskrit Literature c19.s1.9 A History of Sanskrit Literature c19.s1.9 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.keith-1920.c19.s1.9) Obscure also is the question of the form of the work. The Kashmirian version suggests that what Guṇāḍhya produced was a work in Çlokas, but that may be quite misleading, and on the other hand we have the express statement of Daṇḍin that a Kathā to which type he refers the \*Bṛhatkathā\* was written in prose. Verses may have been interwoven as in the case of the \*Jātakamālā\*, but this must remain a mere hypothesis, and there is no other evidence to invalidate the impression given by Daṇḍin. A prose citation by Hemacandra may conceivably be from the \*Bṛhatkathā\*, but it would be quite idle to assert that it was; it may have come from a later recension or from some other source. - [Previous: c19.s1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.keith-1920.c19.s1.8) - [Next: c19.s1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.keith-1920.c19.s1.10) - [Up: c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.keith-1920.c19.s1) ## Linked texts (1) - [Jātakamālā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jatakamala) — Āryaśūra, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.keith-1920.c19.s1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.keith-1920.c19.s1.9) · Pramāṇa