The History of Indian Literature c8.264

c8.264

¹⁰⁵ Bána's Harshacharitra informs us of a Maitráyaṇíya Divákara who embraced the Buddhist creed; and Bhâu Dâji (*Journal Bombay Branch R. A. S.*, x. 40) adds that even now Maitr. Brahmans live near Bhadgâon at the foot of the Vindhya, with whom other Brahmans do not eat in common; 'the reason may have been the early Buddhist tendencies of many of them.' [^asterisk]: Which, by the way, recurs together with some others in precisely the same form in the Amṛitavindu- (or Brahmavindu-) Upanishad. [Though it may be very doubtful whether the word *grantha* ought really *à priori* and for the earlier period to be understood of written texts (cf. *I. St.*, xiii. 476), yet in this verse, at any rate, a different interpretation is hardly possible; see below.]