The History of Indian Literature c9.43

c9.43

∗ In Albírúní's time, the 11th century, it passed as a leading authority; see *Journ. Asiat.*, Aug. 1844, p. 130. [Subandhu, author of the Vásavadattá, had it before him, in Talboys Wheeler in his *History of India*, vol. i. (1867), where, too, there is a general sketch of the contents of the Mahá-Bhárata itself; see *I. Str.*, ii. 392.—It remains further to mention the re-cast of the Mahá-Bhárata by the Jaina Amarachandra, which is extant under the title *Bála-Bhárata*,—in 44 *sargas* of 6550 *anushṭubh* verses,—and which appeared in the Benares *Paṇḍit* (1869 ff.), edited by Vechana Rámaśástrin. This work belongs probably to the 11th century, see *Z. D. M. G.*, xxvii. 170.