Disputed authorship and text transfer are notorious problems in the textual transmission of Sanskrit, especially for large anonymous texts such as the Mahābhārata. Stratification methods for such texts have so far mainly relied on manuscriptology, higher textual criticism, and scattered historical evidence. This paper introduces a quantitative method for text stratification that uses frequent linguistic features for inducing authorial layers in Sanskrit texts. The proposed method is tested with texts whose authorial composition is known, and then applied to the Bhīṣmaparvan of the Mahābhārata.

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分层摩诃婆罗多

有争议的作者和文本传输是梵文文本传输中臭名昭著的问题，特别是对于像摩诃婆罗多这样的大型匿名文本。迄今为止，此类文本的分层方法主要依靠手稿、较高的考证和零散的史料。本文介绍了一种文本分层的定量方法，该方法使用频繁的语言特征来诱导梵文文本中的作者层。所提出的方法用作者组成已知的文本进行测试，然后应用于摩诃婆罗多的 Bhīṣmaparvan。