A History of Sanskrit Literature c11.12

c11.12

The style of the prose in which the *Aitareya* is composed is crude, clumsy, abrupt, and elliptical. The following quotation from the stanzas interspersed in the story of Çunaḥçepa may serve as a specimen of the *gāthās* found in the Brāhmaṇas. These verses are addressed by a sage named Nārada to King Hariçchandra on the importance of having a son :—