A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.122

v3.c35.s8.122

⁵ Only 51 verses are common to all the recensions. None of them is in a position to claim to contain the original text. Simon has based his edition on the text of the South Indian recension just on practical grounds. According to Aufrecht (ZDMG 27, 7 f.) the verses composed in the Śārdūlavikrīḍita metre only belong to the original collection; but there are only 61 stanzas, among those that are there, that have this metre (in Rec. I and III). H. Weller believes (according to a private communication) to have been able to prove that the rec. III is the earliest. That was the view of Bühler (ZDMG 47, 1893, p. 94), since this rec. is attested by the oldest commentator Arjunavarman (between 1215 and 1218). [The different recensions are:—South Indian (Comm. Vemabhūpāla and Rāmānandanātha); Bengal (Ravicandra); West Indian that was used by Arjunavarman; and the mixed recension (Rāmarudra, Rudramadeva). For specimens, with translation, see S. K. De Treatment of Love in Sans. Lit., Calcutta 1929, p. 28 f.; HSL, pp. 158 ff. C. R. Narasimha Śarmā—Studies in Sanskrit Literarure, Mysore, 1936 pp. 1-30.]