The History of Indian Literature c9.81

c9.81

∗ Besides, the slaying of Śumbha and Niśumbha by Deví, which forms the subject of the Deví-Máhátmya, v.-x., in the Márkaṇḍ.-Puráṇa, is referred to in the Mṛichhakaṭí, p. 105. 22 (ed. Stenzler).—Whether, *ibid.* 104. 18, *Karaṭaka* is to be referred to the jackal of this name in the Pañchatantra is uncertain.—At page 126. 9 Stenzler reads *gallakka*, but Wilson (*Hindu Theatre*, i. 134) reads *mallaka*, and considers it not impossible that by it we have to understand the Arabic *málik*!—In regard to the state of manners depicted, the Mṛichhakaṭí is closely related to the Daśa-kumára, although the latter work, written in the eleventh century [rather in the sixth, *see* below, p. 213], belongs certainly to a later stage. Ought the Śúdraka who is mentioned in this work, p. 118, ed. Wilson, to be identified, perhaps, with the reputed author of the Mṛichhakaṭí?