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The Order of the Nakṣatras in the Epic, and the Epic Month

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1917

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page 139 note 1 The evidence of borrowing adduced by Holtzmann (Das Mahābhārata im Osten und Westen, p. 67Google Scholar) is clearly inadequate to prove the relation.