The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s2.30

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∗ In i. 1. 75 ff. the çlokas are 8800; in the first version the thirteenth and the last two books of our present edition are not mentioned. In ib. 101 (b) ff. we read: *idaṃ çatasahasraṃ tu lokānāṃ (çlokānāṃ) puṇyakarmanāṃ, upākhyānāiḥ saha jñeyam ādyam Bhāratam uttamam; caturviṃçatisāhasrīṃ cakre Bhārata-saṃhitām, upākhyānāir vinā tāvad Bhāratam procyate budhāiḥ* (the first verse is omitted in the Calcutta edition); and in 107 we learn that the present length of the Epic as established among men is 100,000 verses, as opposed to the Bhārata of 24,000 verses, mythical ones, and the compilation in its shortest form of 150 verses just mentioned.