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15. The Mahabharata, though based on ancient Vaidic 

 stories, were reduced to its present form during this period. 



was 



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during this period. 



17. In the Mahabhasya of Patanjali many poems are 

 named; such as Vasava Datta, Vararucam Kavyam, Jalukah 

 slokas and others. 



18. The Garga Samhita, an astronomical work, still extant 

 though very rare, was compiled during his period. 



19. Yavana-jataka was translated from Greek into Sanskrit 

 in the year 91 probably of the Saka era in prose by Yavana carya, 

 and it was reduced into 4,000 Indravajra metre by Sphujidhvaja 

 in 191 of the same era. 



20. The Siddhantas which have been abridged by Varaha- 

 mihira in his Paiica Siddhantika also belong to the latter half of 

 this period. 



21. Menetho's work on Astronomy was translated from 

 Greek into Sanskrit during this period. It may be mentioned 

 here, that if Sanskrit had really gone to sleep during these seven 

 hundred years why were the Greek works on Astronomy trans- 

 lated into Sanskrit and not in one of the vernaculars. 



22. Professor Jolly thinks that the Narada Smrti and the 

 Vrhaspati Smrti are mere vartikas to the Manu Samhita, and. 

 therefore they must have been compiled within a few centuries 



of that work, 

 our limits. 



within 



23. The Dasakumaracarita which Wilson ascribes to the 

 sixth century may be placed within this period, as there is no 

 geographical name which cannot be traced to these centuries. 

 The author speaks of Kautilya's Artha-Sastra as a recent work 

 on " Politics." 



Kalidas in the sixth century speaks of the Gaja Sutras as 

 an ancient work from the country Anga. Now the Palakappya 

 which treats of elephants is a work in the Sutra form and it was 

 composed in the Anga desa. So this work also may be placed 

 within these centuries. 



The Lanka vat ara of the Buddhists speaks of several school- 

 of Hindu philosophy, whose works must have been written during 

 the earlier part of this period. In fact, the work entitled ' ' Tatt- 

 va Samasa" or the ' Kapila Sutras' has been regarded by 

 Dr. Mitra as more ancient than Iswara Krsna's Karikas written 

 in the early part of the fifth century. 



hundred 



dialects. But 



in the camp. The orthodox Theravadins continued their 



verna 



culars, as their religious language. But the heterodox people 

 gradually began to Sanskritise the vernaculars and created 

 what Senart calls the mixed Sanskrit, just as we now say sans- 



