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be, it appears to me quite intelligible why such portions should have been considered as of equal age to the body of the work; in fact they would probably go back to about the same time as some of the earlier portions ; only that, owing to a longer state of uncertain transmission, they may have been more liable to changes and additions. If these tracts are not mentioned by Panini, it may be an accidental omission on his part, or he may not have been aware of their existence, for geographical or other reasons: we can hardly expect Panini to have been so intimately acquainted with the Yagus texts as Katyayana. As regards the dates of Katyayana and Patañgali, I accept with Professor Bühler and others, as by far the most probable, the fourth and the middle of the second century B.C. respectively.
Under the title of Vagasaneyaka, the Satapatha-brâhmana is quoted once in Latyayana's Srauta-satra IV, 12, 12; but I have not been able to find the passage either in the Madhyandina text or in that part of the Kanva text which I have hitherto had at my disposal, viz. kandas I, II, IV-VII (Kanva). Far more frequently the work is quoted, either as Vagasaneyaka or as Vagasaneyi-brâhmana, by Åpastamba, both in his Srauta and his Dharma-sútras. On comparing one of these quotations in the Dharmasatras (I, 4, 12, 3) with the corresponding passage in the Madhyandina recension, Professor Bühler found that 'its wording possessed just sufficient resemblance to allow us to identify the passage which Åpastamba meant, but differed from the Satapatha-brahmana in many details?' From this he naturally inferred that Åpastamba probably took his quotations from the Kanva recension. Now, although I have not been able to compare this particular passage with the Kanva text?, I have done so regarding a number of other passages quoted from Åpastamba in Karka's commentary on the Katiya-Srauta-sútra. The result was that in no single case did Åpastamba's quotations agree with the corresponding passages in the Kanva,
fifth Kanva), on the other hand, the Kanvas have 8, instead of 6 adhyâyas; and in the fifth kânda (or sixth and seventh Kanvas) they have together 7, instead of 5 adhyâyas.
1 Bühler, loc. cit. p. xxv. ' The passage occurs in Madhyandina XI, 5, 6, 3.
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Max Muller |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2540 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |