The History of Indian Literature c6.61

c6.61

Buddhism, its origin from Sáṃkhya doctrine, 284; relation of Buddhist legend to the later portions of Vedic literature, 285; princes of same name in Buddhist legend and Śatapatha-Bráhmaṇa, 286; position in former of Kuru-Pañchálas, Páṇḍavas, Mágadhas, 286, 287; Buddhist eras, 287; discordance of these with other historical evidence, 287; earliest demonstrable use of these eras, 288; Buddha’s doctrine, 288; his novel way of promulgating it, and opposition to Brahmanical hierarchy, 289; tradition as to redaction of Buddhistic sacred scriptures, Northern and Southern, 290; mutual relation of the two collections, 292; Páli historical literature, 293; scriptures of Northern Buddhists, their gradual origin, 294; language in which Southern scriptures were at first preserved different from that in which the Northern scriptures were recorded at third council, 295, 296 (Jaina-literature, 296) ; data furnished by Buddhistic Sanskrit literature of doubtful authority for Buddha's age, 297.