[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.t2.34 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.34 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.34 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s3.t2.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.34) find them to-day.¹ However, the collection has come to include some sayings which were originally not Buddhist at all, but were drawn from that inexhaustible source of Indian gnomic wisdom, from which they also found their way into Manu's law-book, into the Mahābhārata, the texts of the Jains, and into narrative works such as the Pañcatantra, etc. It is, in general, impossible to decide where such sayings first appeared.² - [Previous: v2.c19.s3.t2.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.33) - [Next: v2.c19.s3.t2.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.35) - [Up: v2.c19.s3.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2) ## Cites (3) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Pañcatantra (Durgasiṃha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.kavya.pancatantra) — Durgasiṃha (Kannada), Kannada --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.34) · Pramāṇa