A History of Indian Literature v2.c27.22

v2.c27.22

P. 174 note 2, add : A new theory on the composition of the Milindapañha has been suggested by Mrs. *Rhys Davids*, The Milinda Questions—An Inquiry into its Place in the History of Buddhism with a Theory as to its Author, London 1930. She thinks that there is *one* author of the book who first edited the conversation between Milinda and Nāgasena, which she considers to have actually taken place, then—about ten years later—wrote the dialogues on the Dilemmas, and still later, as "a grey-haired man," the book of the Similes. I am not convinced, and see no reason to change my views expressed on pp. 174-83. For an analysis of the work see also *B. Ch. Law* in Ann. Bh. Inst. 13, 1931-32, pp., 105-22.