[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.s5.60 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.60 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.60 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s5.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.60) ¹ \*Cf.\* Bimala Charan \*Law\*, The Life and Work of Buddhaghosa, Calcutta and Simla, 1923 (Calcutta Or. Series, No. 9, E. 3); Max \*Müller\* in SBE 10 (I), pp. xii.xxiv; \*Minayeff\*, Recherches, 189 ff.; Thos. \*Foulkes\* in Ind. Ant. 19, 1890, pp. 105-122 and T. W. \*Rhys Davids\* in ERE II, 885 ff. The "biography" written by the monk Mahāmaṅgala in Burma, perhaps in the 14th century (\*cf.\* Geiger, Pāli Literatur und Sprache, p. 31, para. 40) and published by James \*Gray\*, Buddhaghosuppatti or the Historical Romance of the Rise and Career of Buddhaghosa, London, 1892, is purely legendary. - [Previous: v2.c19.s5.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.59) - [Next: v2.c19.s5.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.61) - [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.s5.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.60) · Pramāṇa