[80]. The reference to Krishna and Arjuna runs Vāsudevārjunābhyām vun (IV, 3, 98), words which put the two on one level.
[81]. Hopkins, G. E. I., 390-395.
[82]. Hopkins, G. E. I., 395.
[83]. We need not stay to ask whether the Srimadbhāgavat and other Purānas can be trusted as evidence for the life of Krishna; for all scholars agree that, while ancient Purānas existed, all those that have come down to us reflect a later stage of Hinduism than that of the Mahābhārata; and that, while they contain much that is old scattered up and down their pages, the oldest fragments are of the same general date as the Mahābhārata and Manu. Hopkins, R. I., 434-445; Macdonell, 299-302; Dutt, C. A. I., I, 19; II, 211; Müller, A. S. L., 61; Kaegi, 8, 105; Krishnacharitra, Chaps. XIV-XVI.
[84]. The study of Prof. Macdonell’s excellent manual ought surely now to be made part of any Sanskrit course prescribed for a University degree in India.
[85]. Bose, H. C., Vol. I, 5.
[86]. The Student’s Chronicle, May 1903, p. 6.
[87]. For some amusing instances see Hopkins, R. I., 522, note, and cf. Monier-Williams, Chap. X.
[88]. Monier-Williams, 260.
[89]. Garbe, 85; Monier-Williams, 98, 112, note.