A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s1.7
A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s1.7
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[^1): *Cf. Eliot*, I, 294f.; *Oldenberg*, Reden des Buddha, p. xxiiiff. [^2): The metre, too, indicates that the verse aphorisms (gāthā) in particular are very old. According to *Oldenberg* (Gurupūjākaumudī, pp. 9ff.) the metres of the Pāli gāthās are more archaic than those of the Rāmāyaṇa. See also R. *Simon* in ZDMG, 44, 1890, 83-97 on the Śloka in Pāli, and *Oldenberg* "Zur Geschichte des Śloka" (NGGW, 1909, p. 244).