The Bhagavadgîtâ, with the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ — SBE Vol. 8 (trans. K. T. Telang, 1882)
The translator’s English as printed (K. T. Telang). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
One other fact of similar nature to those we have now dealt with may, perhaps, be also noticed here. We allude to the stanzas which we find in the Anugita and also in the Santi Parvan of the Mahabharata and in the Manusmrti. There is also one which the Anugîtâ has in common with the Pariśishṭa of Vâska’s Nirukta. It is not possible, I conceive, to say finally whether one of these works borrowed these stanzas from the other of them; while, on the other hand, it is quite possible, as already argued by us in the Introduction to the Gita, that all these works were only reproducing from some entirely different work, or that the stanzas in question were the common property of the thinkers of the time. We have no means available for deciding between these conflicting hypotheses.
1 As the Buddhists did in sundry instances. Cf. inter alia Bühler’s Gautama, pp.lv and 191. And cf. also ‘ Was the Ramayama copied from Homer?’ pp. 48, 49.
2 See Mr. Thomas’s very elaborate discussion of the whole subject in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series), vol. ix, p. 155 seq.
One other fact of a similar nature to those we have just dealt with may perhaps be noticed here. We are referring to the stanzas found in the Anugîtâ and also in the Santi Parvan of the Mahabharata and in the Manusmrti. There is also one that the Anugîtâ shares with the Pariśishṭa of Vâska's Nirukta. It is not possible, I think, to say with any finality whether one of these works borrowed these stanzas from another; while, on the other hand, it is quite possible, as we have already argued in the Introduction to the Gita, that all these works were drawing independently on some entirely different work, or that the stanzas in question were the common property of the thinkers of the time. We have no means available for deciding between these conflicting hypotheses.
1 As the Buddhists did in sundry instances. Cf. inter alia Bühler's Gautama, pp. lv and 191. And cf. also 'Was the Rāmāyaṇa copied from Homer?' pp. 48, 49.
2 See Mr. Thomas's very elaborate discussion of the whole subject in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series), vol. ix, p. 155 seq.