[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s1.7 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s1.7 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s1.7 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s1.7) \[^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). - [Previous: v2.c19.s1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s1.6) - [Next: v2.c19.s1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s1.8) - [Up: v2.c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s1.7) · Pramāṇa