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warrant for the good preservation of the two texts; of small discrepancies I have noted only two: Mantra-Brâhmana I, 6, 15, the formula agantrà sa maganmahi is given for the ceremony of the Upanayana, while Gobhila does not prescribe this Mantra for this ceremony, although other Grihya texts do; and secondly, the Mantra-Brâhmana II, 5, 1-7 does not consist of six verses as Gobh. IV, 6, 5-6 allows us to assume, but of seven verses.
In concluding this introduction notice is to be drawn to the fact that the text of Gobhila has preserved for us the traces of a division differing from the one into four Prapathakas which is handed down by tradition : in a number of places certain Satras or the last words of certain Sätras are set down twice, a well-known way of indicating the close of a chapter. This repetition, besides occurring at the end of the first, third, and fourth Prapathaka (not at the end of the second), is to be found in the following places which become more frequent towards the close of the work : I, 4, 31; III, 6, 15; IV, 1, 22; 4, 34; 5, 34; 6, 16.
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