[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.t2.255 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.255 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.255 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s3.t2.255](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.255) ² This "Solomon's judgment" forms the nucleus of the Chinese play "Hoei-lanki or the chalk circle." It may be regarded as certain that this anecdote and the Judgment of Solomon in I. Kings 3, 16-28, could not have originated independently of each other. \*A. Weber\*, Indische Streifen III, p. 60, regards it as out of the question that the Jews had borrowed it from the Indians, similarly \*Garbe\*, Contributions of Buddhism to Christianity, Chicago 1911, p. 12, note 16. On the other hand, \*Hugo Cressmann\* (Deutsche Rundschau, Vol. 33, 1907, pp. 212 ff.) has adduced very good reasons in favour of its Indian origin. Cf. also \*Th. Benfey\*, Kleine Schriften II, 170 f.; \*R. Köhler\*, Kleinere Schriften I, 531 ff.; \*H. Gaidoz\*, Mélusine, t. IV; \*R. Engelmann\* in Hermes, Vol. 39, 1904, 148 f.; \*T. W. Rhys Davids\*, Buddh. Birth Stories, p. xliv ff; \*Zachariae\*, Kleine Schriften, pp. 150 ff. - [Previous: v2.c19.s3.t2.254](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.254) - [Next: v2.c19.s3.t2.256](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.256) - [Up: v2.c19.s3.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.255](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.255) · Pramāṇa