1869.] Further Notes on the Prithvrfij-rdyasa. 7 



Here follows the corresponding passage from canto III. of the 

 Benares MS. 



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The present disjointed state of these poems, affords a very striking 

 parallel to the supposed condition of the Homeric ballads, before they 

 were reduced to a definite canon by Pisistratus ; and the Homer of 



