Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c11.s1.34

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∗ XIV, 6, 1, 1-3 and especially 6, 9, 20. † Holding as we do with Weber that the “Çat. Br.” was compiled in the east, it is very readily explained how this text not only knows those peoples, kings and teachers, as do the other texts, but in addition also knows Yâjnavalkya and Janaka, of whom the other texts are almost wholly ignorant (Weber, “Lit. Gesch.”2 p. 146, note 2). The other texts originated at the very centre, the “Çat. Br.” at the periphery of Vedic culture; in the provinces people know the great folks of the capital, but not vice versâ. ‡ Cf. Weber, “Ind. Stud.” i, 170 seq. § What river that Sâdanîrâ here, named as a boundary, is, cannot, as far as I see, be determined with certainty. Weber (loc. cit. 172, 181) identifies it with the Gandakî, which in later times formed the boundary between the territories of Kosala and Videha. Against this the fact seems to speak, that the Mahâbhârata on one occasion makes its heroes cross “Gandakîn ca Mahâçonam Sâdanîrâm tathaiva ca” (ii, 794 ed. Calc. ; also vi, 325, 332 the two rivers stand beside each other in a long list); this passage is, of course, not decisive, for the