A History of Sanskrit Literature c17.29
A History of Sanskrit Literature c17.29
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c17.29
The author was SOMADEVA, a Kashmirian poet, who composed his work about 1070 A.D. Though he himself was a Brahman, his work contains not only many traces of the Buddhistic character of his sources, but even direct allusions to Buddhist Birth Stories. He states the real basis of his work to have been the *Bṛihat-kathā*, or "Great Narration," which Bāṇa mentions, by the poet Guṇāḍhya, who is quoted by Daṇḍin. This original must, in the opinion of Bühler, go back to the first or second century A.D.