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Paper presented at the Staff Academy, Karnatak Arts College, Dharwad, in memory of A.Webers' Das Saptasatakam des Hala (Leipzig, 1881), marking its centenary year of publication and published in the Sambodhi, Vol. X, 1982.
The names of all the authors of these verses are not known. The later commentaries on this anthology, however, mention their names for each separate couplet. But these commentaries differ considerably about these names and, hence, are not reliable.
3. Each galā being independent and a complete whole, there was ample scope for interpolations. And when the number of the gāhās rose to 700, the anthology was called Sattasai. Later, this number rose to nearly 1,000. Yet the anthology is popularly known as Gāhāsattasai (Gāthāsaptasati). Vide Introduction to the Hindi Gāthāsaptasati by Narmadeshwar Chaturvedi, Chowkhamba Vidyabhavan Sanskrit Series No.55, pp.13-16.
Edited by Pandit Kedarnath and Vasudev, Bombay, 1911. Das Saptasatakam des Hala, Leipzig, 1881.
The gahas of the Gāhākoso, which claim great antiquity, can be said to have been composed by folk-poets, and the For Private & Personal Use Only
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A.Weber finds that only 430 gahas occur in all the six recensions of the Gāhāsattasai. Hence these gahas may have hence the contents of the Gāhākaso.
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