The History of Indian Literature c8.313

c8.313

∗ Translated by Aufrecht, *I. St.*, i. 130, ff. [The St. Petersburg Dict., *s. v.*, considers 'the praise of the Vrátya in Ath. xv. as an idealising of the devout vagrant or mendicant (*parivrájaka*, &c.) ;' the fact of his being specially connected with the *puńśchalí* and the *mágadha* remains, nevertheless, very strange, and even with this interpretation leads us to surmise suggestions of Buddhism.]