A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.47

v3.c35.s8.47

³ Peterson (Kādambarī Ed., Introd. p. 74 ff.) propounds the theory that Hāla had himself mainly composed the stanzas of the Sattasaī. In the commentaries written in later centuries, the Sattasaī is treated altogether as an anthology and in it we find names of writers of individual stanzas. In respect of these names, however, the manuscripts differ very much from one another: most of them give names only in the beginning of the work and then stop. The commentaries of the Vulgata give 112 names, Bhuvanapāla gives 384. In the Km. edition the names of probable authors too are given in the gāthānukramaṇikā. Yet in many cases the names are wanting, and often Hāla himself is mentioned as the author. In the opinion of W. these names are quite unreliable. A different view is that of Pischel (Grammatik der Prākrit Sprachen § 13), who concludes from the names given that the Sattasaī presupposes a very rich Prākrit literature, in which women also had their contributions.