A History of Indian Literature v1.c9.s2.16

v1.c9.s2.16

¹ In the Pauṣyaparvan (Mahābh. I, 3), in the Mārkaṇḍeya section of the Vanaparvan, and in the sectarian Nārāyaṇīya. All these are pieces which are really outside the scope of the epic proper. I therefore cannot agree at all with *Oldenberg* (Zur Geschichte der altindischen Prosa, pp. 65 ff.; Das Mahabharata, pp. 21 ff.) in seeing an earlier stage of the epic in these very pieces. *Cf*. Hopkins, The Great Epic of India, pp. 266 ff.; *Winternitz*, DLZ 1919, No. 44.