[103] xvii. 75; cf. Sāhityadarpaṇa, 431; R. iii. 314. [↑]

[104] Cf. IS. xiii. 483 ff.; Kielhorn, IA. xiv. 326 f. [↑]

[105] Bruchstücke buddhistischer Dramen, pp. 11, 64. Contrast his views in SBAW. 1912, pp. 808 ff., when he accepts the much later date, advocated by Oldenberg, GN. 1911, pp. 427 ff. [↑]

[106] Jacobi, Ausgew. Erzählungen in Mâhârâshṭrî, pp. xiv ff., suggests the fifth century A.D. for Sātavāhana. V. Smith’s date (first cent. A.D.) is certainly wrong. The poetry may probably be as early as the third century; Weber’s ed., p. xxiii; Lévi, TI. i. 326; GIL. iii. 102 f. [↑]

[107] Lüders, Bruchstücke buddhistischer Dramen, pp. 40 f.; SBAW. 1913, pp. 1003 ff. [↑]

[108] See Keith in CHI. i. 123 f. [↑]

[109] TI. i. 331. [↑]

[110] IA. xxx. 556. [↑]

[111] A transitional stage of Prākrit may, perhaps, be seen in the Nāṭyaçāstra, but the text is very corrupt; cf. Jacobi, Bhavisattakaha, pp. 84 ff. [↑]

[112] Cf. Aischylos in Athen., p. 347. [↑]