A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t1.19.4

v2.c19.s3.t1.19.4

These are additions and insertions of epigones, who no longer felt even a breath of the spirit which had inspired the authors of the ancient record. In most cases, moreover, it is not difficult to point out the sources whence the additions came; for large portions of the Sutta, all together amounting to almost the whole Sutta, recur in other texts of the Tipiṭaka and are obviously borrowed from them.[^2) Nevertheless all the