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of long range of time, there was a remarkable change in the matter of storyelements and narrations of incidents. There are such numerous stories which are found different in story-books, though they are very famous. Some stories are described in the Agamas. The same are found to have been elaborated in the subsequent literature by adding digressions to them.
After seeing such a diversity in the story-sootras, it seems necessary to make a research as to where is the original source of the stories, how it is as also to see whether the difference in view-points found therein or the digressions that are found there are acceptable or not. This task is as difficult or unfruitful as churning of water.
Our attention should be focussed on its inspiring ability rather than on the historicalness of the stories. It is but natural that there may be differences in opinion, in patching up the different
