The History of Indian Literature c8.353

c8.353

dagger † Unless these verses were merely invented by priests in order to stimulate kings to copy and emulate the liberality of their ancestors. Still this is both in itself a very forced explanation, and besides many of these verses are of purely historical purport, and contain no allusion to the presents given to the priests. [^ddagger]: ‡ See Váj. S., 34. 52 (not in the Ṛik). [^section]: § See Ṛik, maṇḍ. iv. 42. 8.