The History of Indian Literature c10.64

c10.64

P. 253, note \*. The absence of mention of the Romakas in the Rámáyaṇa may perhaps also rest upon geographical grounds, namely, on the probable origin of the poem in the east of India, in the land of the Kośalas, whereas the ‘war-part’ of the Mahá-Bhárata was in all likelihood composed in Central, if not in Western India.