Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VISHNU.
together with the six or five other sections of the Maitrayanîyas on the other hand, as subdivisions of the Karaka Sakhå of the Black Yagur-veda. What is more, there exists a thorough-going parallelism between the literature of those two schools, as far as it is known. To begin with their respective Samhitâs, it has been shown by L. Schröder1 that the Maitrayanî Samhità has more in common with the Kathaka, the Samhita of the Kathas, than with any other Veda. As the Kathas are constantly named, in the Mahabhashya and other old works, by the side of the Kalapas, whereas the name of the Maitrầyanîyas does not occur in any Sanskrit work of uncontested antiquity, it has been suggested by the same scholar that the Maitrậyanîyas may be the Kâlâpas of old, and may not have assumed the former name till Buddhism began to prevail in India. However this may be, the principal Satra works of both schools stand in a similar relation to one another as their Samhitâs. Some of those Mantras, which have been stated above to be common to the Vishnu-satra and Kathaka Grihya only, and to occur in no other Vedic work hitherto printed, have been traced in the Mânava Srauta-sûtra, in the chapter on Pinda-pitriyagña (I, 2 of the section on Prâksoma)?, and the conclusion is, that if the Srauta-satra of the Kathaka school were still in existence, it would be found to exhibit a far greater number of analogies with the Srauta-sútra of the Mânavas. The Grihya-sætra of this school 3 agrees with the Kathaka Grihya-sútra even more closely than the latter agrees with the Vishnu-satra, as both works have not only several entire chapters in common (the chapter on the Vaisvadeva sacrifice among others, which is found in the Vishnu-satra also), but concur everywhere in the arrangement of the subject-matter and in the choice of expressions and Mantras. The Brâhmana stage of Vedic literature is not represented by a separate work in either of the two schools, but a further argument in
i On the Maitrậyani Sambitâ, Journal of the German Oriental Society, XXXIII, 177 seq. * Cod. Haug 53 of the Munich Library.
3 Codd. Haug 55 and 56 of the Munich Library. For details, see my German paper above referred to.
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