A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t1.116
A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t1.116
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Similar passages occur occasionally in Indian gnomic poetry. The idea of such enumerations probably belongs to ancient folk-lore, only that in the Aṅguttaranikāya, with real Indian pedantry, it became the principle of arrangement of an entire large work.¹