A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s3.14

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v3.c35.s3.14

¹ Cf. Bühler, Die indischen Inschriften und das Alter der indischen Kunstpoesie p., 72. and Kielhorn, Ind. Ant. 14, 326f. H. Lüders (Bruchstücke buddhistischer Dramen, p. 62) believes in the existence of the kāvya style already in the Hāthigumphā Inscription of Khāravela, written in the 2nd century A. D. (according to Smith, Early History, p. 207 in 218 A.D.). But this Prākrit inscription is preserved in such a mutilated form that we can understand little about its style and language. On the inscription, cf. Lüders, Ep. Ind. X, App. p. 160f and Charpentier, WZKM 29, 1915, 208 ff.). Recent researches on the Hāthigumphā inscription by R.D. Banerji and K.P. Jayaswal in JBRAS 1917, 425ff; R.C. Majumdar and K. G. Sankara Aiyar, Ind. Ant. 47, 1918, 223f.; 48, 1919, 187 ff; 49, 1920, 43ff. According to V. A. Smith (JRAS 1918, 543) ff. the date of this inscription is estimated at 170 B. C. See also Ramā Prasāda Chanda. Smith and F. W. Thomas, JRAS, 1919, 395ff.; 1912, 83 f.; Ind. Ant. 48, 1919, 214 ff.