[90] Kulavagga V. 33, 1. The expression used is Khandaso âropemâ'ti.
[91] See Rhys Davids, Buddhist Suttas, "Sacred Books of the East," vol. xi., p. 142.
[92] The Brahmo-Samaj, a theistic school.—A. W.
[93] The Liberal, March 12, 1882.
[94] See R. G. Bhandarkar, Consideration of the date of the Mahâbhârata, Journal of the R. A. S. of Bombay, 1872; Talboys Wheeler, "History of India," ii. 365, 572; Holtzmann, "Über das alte indische Epos," 1881, p. 1; Phear, "The Aryan Village in India and Ceylon," p. 19. That the Mahâbhârata was publicly read in the seventh century a.d., we learn from Bâna; see Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay, vol. x., p. 87, note.—A. W.
[95] "Hibbert Lectures," p. 157.
[96] "Every person acquainted with the spoken speech of India knows perfectly well that its elevation to the dignity and usefulness of written speech has depended, and must still depend, upon its borrowing largely from its parent or kindred source; that no man who is ignorant of Arabic or Sanskrit can write Hindustani or Bengali with elegance, or purity, or precision, and that the condemnation of the classical languages to oblivion would consign the dialects to utter helplessness and irretrievable barbarism."—H. H. Wilson, Asiatic Journal, Jan., 1836; vol xix., p. 15.
[97] It would be a most useful work for any young scholar to draw up a list of Sanskrit books which are quoted by later writers, but have not yet been met with in Indian libraries.
[98] "Hibbert Lectures," p. 133.
[99] This vague term, Turanian, so much used in the Parsi Scriptures, is used here in the sense of unclassified ethnically.—A. W.