A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.196
A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.196
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¹ For instance, if *Lüders* (Festschrift Windisch, pp. 228 ff.) has proved that some of the Gāthās of Jātakas Nos. 377 and 487, having reference to Śvetaketu, who is familiar to us from the Upaniṣads, date back to the Vedic period, then the statement is only true of these particular Gāthās, and we are *not* warranted to make the generalisation that the Gāthā poetry of the Jātakas forms "the connecting-link between the Vedic Ākhyāna and the epic poetry."