Study Of Mahabharata

Author(s): J W De Jong
Publisher: J W De Jong

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19 THE STUDY OF THE MAHABHARATA 26. For the opinions of G. Grierson and J. J. Meyer, see G. J. Held, The Mahabharata. An Ethnological Study. Amsterdam, 1935, p. 11. 27. 'Old Indian, The Two Sanskrit Epics', Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry. Volume One. London, 1980, p. 66. . 28. Ueber das verhaltnis des mythischen elementes zu der historischen grundlage des Mahabharata. Prag, 1884; Ueber die mythische grundlage des Mahabharata. Prag, 1895. Das Mahabharata als Epos und als Rechtsbuch Prag, 1896. 29. Cf. a passage from a recent book by Ninian Smart quoted by Karl Werner, JRAS (1982), p. 15. 30. A History of Indian Literature. Vol. I. Calcutta, 1927, p. 316, n. 1. 31. V. S. Sukthankar, On the Meaning of the Mahabharata. Bombay, 1957, p. 21. 32. Held refers several times to his paper on 'The Origin of the Divine Trickster '(De oor sprong van den goddelijke bedrieger. Amsterdam, 1929). 33. De Pandji roman, Antwerpen, 1922; 'Over de zin van het Javaansche drama', BTLV 81 (1925), pp. 311-384; Over den oorsprong van het Javaansche toneel', BTLV 88 (1931), pp. 317-450. These two articles were published in English translation in Panji, the cultural hero. The Hague, 1959: 'On the meaning of Javanese drama', pp. 1-61; 'On the origin of the Javanese theatre', pp. 93-215.