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7. W. DE JONG
ECENT RUSSIAN PUBLICATIONS ON
THE INDIAN EPIC
1. Ja. V. Vasilkov, “The Mahābhārata and oral
epic poetry', Narody Azii i Afriki, 1971, no. 4,
pp. 95-106. 2. Ja. V. Vasilkov, 'Elements of oral-poetic
technique in the Mahābhārata', Literatury Indii.
Stat’i i soobščenija (Moscow, 1973), pp. 3-23. 3. P. A. Grintser, The old Indian epic. Genesis and
typology. Moscow, 1974, 419 pp.
The critical study of the Mahābhārata (henceforth abridged M) and the Rāmāyaṇa (abridged R) began in Europe in the beginning of the nineteenth century. The history of the study of the Indian epic has still to be written. Most of the older publications have been mentioned and discussed by Ernst Windischand by Moritz Winternitz. For many years Auguste Barth critically analysed the literature on the Indian epic.3
1 Geschichte der Sanskrit-Philologie und indischen Altertumskunde. I. Strassburg, 1917; II. Berlin-Leipzig, 1920.
2 A History of Indian Literature. I. Calcutta, 1927. • Cf. Oeuvres de Auguste Barth, vol. 5, Index général.
