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² The Sanskrit rendering of this title, that is in Prākrit, is Saptaśatī. Other titles are: Gāthāsaptaśatī, Gāthākośa, Saptaśataka. Edition and German translation by A. Weber, AKM. V. 1870; VII, 1881; cf. ZDMG 26, 1872, 735 ff.; 28, 1874, 345 ff.; Ind. Stud. 16, 1883, and Deutsche Rundschau, vol. 42, 1885, p. 223 ff. The translations of Weber are wholly literal and have nothing of poetical reproduction. Specimens of meterial translation have been given by H. Brunnhofer, Über den Geist der indischen Lyrik, Leipzig, 1882, p. 24 ff., and G. Meyer, Essays und Studien, Strassburg 1885, p. 289 ff. Brunnhofer has mostly doubled the small stanzas and he has rather composed his own poems on the basis of those of India, whilst Meyer has often made his rendering more compact than the Indian poem from the stanzas of Hāla. Adolph Wilbrandt has done the best (in a small selection on 32 stanzas published in the "Neuen Freien Presse" in Vienna on April 19, 1899 and in a second selection of 62 stanzas as published in Vol. 87, 1900 in the "Westermanns Illustrierten Monatschriften); here the Indian stanzas have literally and faithfully been reproduced, and yet the translation is a poetical reproduction. The text with the commentary of Gaṅgādhara-bhaṭṭa has also been published in Km. 21, 1889. [The śatakas IV-VII with Haritāmrapītāmbara's commentary have been published by Jagadish Lāl Shāstri, Lahore 1942; Text with an elaborate introduction and Marāṭhī trans. by Jogalekar, Poona 1956. Cf. Keith, HSL. p. 223 ff.]