The History of Indian Literature c9.26

c9.26

¹⁹⁹ Vyása Páráśarya is likewise mentioned in the *vaṅśa* of the Sáma-vidhána-Bráhmaṇa, as the disciple of Vishvaksena, and preceptor of Jaimini; see *I. St.*, iv. 377.—The Mahábháshya, again, not only contains frequent allusions to the legend of the Mahá-Bhárata, and even metrical quotations that connect themselves with it, but it also contains the name of Śuka Vaiyásaki; and from this it is clear that there was then already extant a poetical version of the Mahá-Bhárata story; see *I. St.*, xiii. 357. Among the prior births of Buddha is one (No. 436 in Westergaard's *Catalogus*, p. 40), bearing the name Kaṇha-Dípáyana, *i.e.*, Kṛishṇa-Dvaipáyana!