[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.s5.14 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.14 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.14 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s5.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.14) ¹ The passages which I regard as decidedly spurious in Book I, are the following: paragraph 3 (a table of contents, which refers to the entire Pāli work), paragraphs 4-8 (a Jātaka, which tells of the former births of Milinda and Nāgasena, and ends with a prophecy of Buddha), 11-14 (already recognised by \*Rhys Davids\* as a clumsy interpolation) and 16-36 (conception, birth, youth, conversion and attainment of Arhatship of Nāgasena). - [Previous: v2.c19.s5.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.13) - [Next: v2.c19.s5.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.15) - [Up: v2.c19.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.14) · Pramāṇa