A History of Sanskrit Literature c19.s2.1

c19.s2.1

Budhasvāmin, the author of the *Çlokasaṁgraha*, abbreviation in Çlokas of the *Bṛhatkathā*, is no more than a name to us.² The manuscripts of his work are from Nepal, but there is no mark otherwise of his Nepalese origin, which must remain merely a conjecture. The form of name is not modern; but, as it is attested from early days down to the twelfth century, the probable date of one of the manuscripts, we reach no satisfactory result from that. If he is assigned to the eighth or ninth century, it is without any special ground save that the manuscript tradition suggests that a long time has elapsed before the extant manuscripts came into being.