The History of Indian Literature c9.42

c9.42

²⁰⁵ 1834-39 in four vols.; recently also at Bombay (1863) with the commentary of Nílakaṇṭha. Hippolyte Fauche's incomplete French translation (1863-72, ten vols.) can only pass for a translation in a very qualified sense; see as to this *I. Str.*, ii. 410 ff. Individual portions of the work have been frequently handled: *e.g.*, Pavie has translated nine pieces (Paris, 1844) and Foucaux eleven (Paris, 1862). Bopp, it is well known, early made the finest episodes accessible, beginning with the *Nala* (London, 1819), whereby he at the same time laid the foundation of Sanskrit philology in Europe. For the criticism of the Mahá-Bhárata, the ground was broken and important results achieved by Lassen in his *Indische Alterthumskunde* (vol. i. 1847). For the contents of the work, see Monier Williams's *Indian Epic Poetry* (1863), and *Indian Wisdom* (1875). the 7th century; see *I. Str.*, i. 380. A French translation by A. Langlois appeared in 1834.] † See my *Catal. of the Sanskrit MSS. in the Berl. Lib.*, pp. 111-118: according to Wilson (*Mack. Coll.*, ii. 1), this book would appear to be the only one in existence; see also Weigle in *Z. D. M. G.*, ii. 278. [This book, the *áśvamedhikam parva*, was printed at Bombay in 1863; according to its concluding statements as they appear in this edition, Jaimini's work embraced the entire epos; but up to the present, apart from this 13th book, nothing further is known of it; see as to this my paper in the *Monatsberichte der Berl. Acad.*, 1869, p. 10 ff. A Kanárese translation of this book is assigned to the beginning of the 13th century (*ibid.*, pp. 13, 35); quite recently, however, by Kittel, in his Preface to Nágavarma's *Prosody*, pp. vi. lxxi., it has been relegated to the middle of the 18th (!) century. The peculiar colouring of the Krĭshṇa sect, which pervades the whole book, is noteworthy; Christian legendary matter and other Western influences are unmistakably present; *Monatsb.*, *l. c.*, p. 37 ff. A good part of the contents has been communicated by