The History of Indian Literature c9.53

c9.53

²⁰⁷ See Friederich, *l. c.*, *I. St.*, ii. 139 ff. The numerous traces which are contained in Pataṁjali’s Mahábháshya of epic or narrative poems then actually extant, and which appear in that work as direct quotations therefrom, take us back to a far earlier time; see *I. St.*, xiii. 463 ff.