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3. The Brahmanas must have gone before the Sutras. .Aitereya mentions Janamejayaand Bharata as powerful kings.
4. Aswalayana (about 350 B. C.) names Bharata and Maha-bharata in his Grihya Sutras.
5. About A. D. 80, Dion Chrysostom writes " Even among the Indians, they say, Homer's poetry is sung, having been translated by them in their own dialect and tongue and the Indians are well-acquainted in the sufferings of Piani, the lamentations of Andromache and the prowess of Achilles and Hector." These allusions keep close correspondence with "leading incidents in our epic,
6. "It has as its basis a war waged on the soil ofHin*. dustan between Aryan tribes and therefore properly belonging to a time when their settlement in India and the subjugation and brahminisation of the native inhabitants had already been accomplished. Of the epic in its extant form only about one-fourth relates to this conflict and the myths that have been associated with it, while the elements composing the remainder do not belong to it at all and have only the loosest possible connection therewith as well as with each other. .........Even at the portion, which is recognisable as the original basis—that relating to war—many generations must have laboured; before the text attained to an approximately settled -shape."—Weber.
7, In one of the Nasik inscriptions dated 394 A. D., Gokawputa's prowess is compared to that of Bhima and Aijuaa. Another inscription of Dharwar bears 3730 in the era of the Mababharata War corresponding to Saka 360 or , |