The History of Indian Literature c9.340

c9.340

³²⁸ Johäntgen (pp. 86, 95) assumes as the latest limit for its composition the year B.C. 350, and as the earliest limit the fifth century. But this rests in great part upon his further assumption (p. 77) that the Bráhmaṇas, Upanishads, &c., known to us are all of later date—an assumption which is rendered in the highest degree doubtful by the remarks he himself makes, in agreement with Müller and myself, upon the probable origin of the work from a Gṛihya-Sútra of the Mánava school of the Black Yajus, as well as upon the various redactions it has undergone, and the relation of the work itself and the various schools of the Yajus to Buddhism (pp. 112, 113); see *I. Str.*, ii. 278, 279.