[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.s3.t1.69 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t1.69 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t1.69 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s3.t1.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.69) ³ R. O. \*Franke\* has tried to trace a uniform fundamental idea and associations of thought underlying the various Suttas in the Majjhimanikāya too (WZKM 29, 1915, 134 ff.; ZDMG 68, 1914, 473 ff.) with a view to proving from it, that this book, too, is not a collection of sermons and dialogues, but the unified work of \*one\* author. The arguments in this case are, if anything, even less convincing than in the case of the Dīghanikāya. The very fact that we often find a "great" and a "small" Sutta on the same subject side by side in the Majjh. (\*e. g.\*, Cūḷa- and Mahā-Sīhanāda-Sutta), is evidence that the work is in the nature of a collection. - [Previous: v2.c19.s3.t1.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.68) - [Next: v2.c19.s3.t1.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.70) - [Up: v2.c19.s3.t1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.69) · Pramāṇa