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rata. The heavy volume and diverse matter of these works have given rise to many fanciful theories am % g oriental scholars. Some of the* most prominent will be noticed in -due detail in the accompanying pages. For the present, the theory of Prof. Hdtzmann as to the nature .and origin of the Mahabharata deserves a short review : The traditionaj stock of legends were first worked up-into a precise shapet by some Buddhist poets and this version, showing a decided prediliction for the Kaurava party as the representation of Buddhist principles, was afterwards revised in a contrary sense at the time of the Brahminical reaction by the votaries of Vishnu, when the Buddhistic features were generally modified into Saivite tendencies and prominence was given to the divine nature of Krishna as an incarnation. It is but right that the Brahminical priests should have deemed it desirable to subject the traditional memorials of Kshatri-ya chivalry and prestige to their own censorship and adapt them to their own canons of religion and civil law. This theory subverts all truth and tradition. It is not right to suppose that modifications and innovations especially in the religious character of sectarian works are so easily ^accomplished, No single Buddhistic record offers any gro:nnd for j:his theory* If such a standard work as the Mahabharata were included in the catalogue of the Buddhistic literature, certainly it cannot be dreamt that febe Brahminical transformation could ever have been possible, so as to entirely erase from the huge mass all traces of the "Buddhistic coloring. Clear demonstration is •elsewhere made that the epic long preceded the dawn df the Buddhistic era. 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