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the conclusion to be derived from it must be, that Sankara and Vigñana must have considered the chapters of the Asvamedha Parvan from which their respective quotations are taken as not forming part of the Anugita.
The testimony we have thus collected is apparently of considerable weight. Against it, however, we have to weigh some testimony which appears to me to be entitled, upon the whole, to even greater weight. In the Sankhya-såra of Vigñana Bhikshu, to which we have already referred, we have two quotations from the Anugita which are distinctly stated to be taken from that work. The first occurs in our translation at p. 332, the second at p. 313. Now, if we adopt the conclusion above referred to, regarding the correct titles of the thirty-six chapters which we have translated, it is a mistake to attribute the passages in question to the Anugîtà. They would, on that view, form part of the Gurusishyasamvada. Again, in his commentary on the Sanatsugåtiya, Sankara refers to sundry passages which he expressly says are taken from the Anugita, but which are not contained in the Anugita as limited by the evidence we have considered above. One of the passages referred to is taken from chapter XI of our translation, and others are contained in the comments on Sanatsugåtiya I, 6, and on I, 20 and I, 41% It is difficult to resist the conclusion to which this positive evidence leads. One cannot possibly explain this evidence upon the view which we have first stated; while, on the other hand, the points which apparently support that view are capable of some explanation on the theory that the Anugità includes all the chapters here translated. And that in this wise. The passages which we have referred to as cited by Sankara and Vigñana from a Purana and from the Bharata may have been actually taken from some other work than the Anugitä. Even waiving the fact that the readings are different,—though in regard especially to the quotation given by Sarkara it is not one to be entirely lost sight of,—there is this fact which is of great and almost conclusive weight on such a point as
· Pp. 15, 21. The latter corresponds to Sankan's quotation above referred to. . See p. 106 note.
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