A History of Sanskrit Literature c9.s1.3

c9.s1.3

² Bhandarkar, *Early Hist. of India* (1920), pp. 70 ff., who admits the existence of some Sanskrit literature, but places Açvaghoṣa under Kaniṣka *c.* A. D. 300. But as early as 185 B.C. there was a Brahmanical revival under Puṣyamitra; EHI. pp. 208 ff.; Przyluski, *La légende de l'empereur Açoka*, pp. 90 ff.