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ASVALAYANA-GRIHYA-SÚTRA.
which was taught in the village was superseded by the more recent Asvalâ yana-sætra.
There would be still many questions with which an Introduction to Åsvalâyana would have to deal; thus the relation between Asvalâyana and Saunaka, which we had intended to treat of here with reference to a special point, would have to be further discussed with regard to several other of its bearings, and the results which follow therefrom as to the position of Åsvalâyana in the history of Vedic literature would have to be stated. But we prefer to reserve the discussion of these questions for the General Introduction to the Grihya-sútras.
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