d and the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach.
Jacobi, in his 'R[=a]m[=a]yana,' has lately claimed a
considerable antiquity for the foundation legends of the
R[=a]m[=a]yana, but he does not disprove the late completed
form.]

[Footnote 6: i. 78. 10; see Buehler's Introduction.]

[Footnote 7: Jacobi seeks to put the completed nucleus at
the time of the Christian era, but it must have been quite a
large nucleus in view of the allusions to it in precedent
literature. Holtztmann puts the completion at about 1000
A.D.; but in 700 A.D., it was complete, and most scholars
will agree with Buehler that the present Mah[=a]-Bh[=a]rata
was completed by the sixth or seventh century. In 533 A.D.
it contained 100,000 distichs, that is, it was about the
size it is now.]

[Footnote 8: By the time the drama began the epic was become
a religious storehouse, and the actual epic story
represented not a fifth of the whole work, so that, with its
simple language, it must have seemed, as a literary
production, very wearisome to the minds that delighted in
the artificial compounds and romantic episodes of the drama
and lyric. But even to-day it is recited at great fetes, and
listened to with rapt attention, as the rhapsodes with more
or less dramatic power recite its holy verses.]

[Footnote 9: The later law-books say expressly that women
and slaves have a right to use _mantra,
mantr[=a]dhik[=a]ri[n.]as._ But the later legal Smritis are
no more than disguised sectarian Pur[=a]nas.]

[Footnote 10: Compare the visit of the old Muni on the
prince in iii. 262. 8. He is _paramakopana_, 'extremely
irritable'; calls for food only to reject it; growls at the
service, etc. Everything must be done 'quickly' for him. "I
am hungry, give me food, _quick_," is his way of speaking,
etc. (12). The adjective is one applied to the All-gods,
_paramakrodhinas._]

[Footnote 11: Each spiritual teacher instructed high-caste
boys, in classes of four or five at most. In xii. 328. 41
the four students of a priest go on a strike because the
latter wants to take another pupil besides themselves and
his own son.]

[Footnote 12: The saints in the sky praise the combatants
(vii. 188. 41; viii. 15. 27); and the gods roar approval of
prowess "with roars like a