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OPINIONS AND REVIEWS 681 Opinions on some of the Papers incorporated
in the Volume.
DR. BARNETT.-They are very interesting and critically sound.
DR. KEITH.-They are ail very interesting, and I am glad to note the very useful information elicited as to Bhoja.
PROFESSOR DR. STEN KONOW, KRISTIANIA, NORWAY. --They are written in a thoroughly scholar-like way, and more especially it seems to me that your paper about the Laksmana Sena era deserves very careful attention.
PROFESSOR H. JACOBI.-The verification of the Bhāgavata credo in the Besnagar inscription is a find on which you may be congratulated.
PROFESSOR SCHRADER, KIEL, GERMANY. - The Antiquity of the Rig Veda is a sober and useful little piece of research work with which, on the whole, I fully agree. If we follow Jacobi and Tilak we create a gap (which we cannot bridge over) between the Mantras and "the Brāhmaṇas, for the latter are certainly not far removed from early Buddhism, On the other hand, if Hertel were right, the Rg Veda would immediately precede Buddhism, and there would be no room at all for Brāhmaṇas and Upanisads.
Your important paper on the inter-relation of the two epics : The opinion held by Macdonell, Winternitz, and others, viz., that the heroes of the Mahābhārata are unknown to the Rāmāyāna, seems, indeed, to be untenable... Again, I find it difficult, as you do, to distinguish between a Pāndava story and a Kuru-Bhārata Epic,
PROFESSOR JARL CHARPENTIER.—The identification of some words in this very important document (the Besnagar Inscripition) with a passage in the Mahābhārata seems to be a most happy find.
PROFESSOR E. WASHBURN HOPKINS.--It is certainly a remarkable resemblance which you have established and I should be inclined to agree with your conclusion.
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