Grihya Sutras

SR No.: 007685
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1886
Total Pages: 2642
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VEDIC HYMNS.
where the same passage is found. I there spelt the name Sammada, because the majority of the MSS. were in favour of that spelling. In the edition of the Asvalayana-sútras, which has since been published by Rama Narayana Vidyaranya, the name is spelt Samada. My own opinion is that Sâmmada is the right spelling, but that does not prove that Såyana thought so; and unless I deviated from the principles which I had adopted for a critical restoration of Såyana's text, I could not but write Såmada in our passage. B i and B 4 omit sâmada, but both give samadakhyasya ; Ca. gives likewise samadakhyasya, and A. semadåkhyasya. This, I believe, was meant by the writer for sammadakhyasya, for in the passage from the Anukramanî both A. and Ca. give såmmado. I then consulted the commentary of Shadgurusishya, and there again the same MS. gave twice sâmmada, once sâmada, which is explained by samadakhyamahâmînarågaputrah. A better MS. of Shadgurusishya, MS. Wilson 379, gives the readings såmmado, såmmada, and sammadákhyasya. The other commentary gives distinctly sâmanda. [I have adopted sammada in the new edition.]
In IX, 68, Professor Aufrecht adopts what he considers the bold reading Vatsaprî; I prefer to be timid and allow Såyana his own reading Vatsapri ; see Sarvånukramani, ed. Macdonell, pp. 34, 146.
It will be seen from these remarks that many things have to be considered before one can form an independent judgment as to the exact view adopted by Sayana in places where he differs from other authorities, or as to the exact words in which he clothed his meaning. Such cases occur again and again. Thus in IX, 86, I find that Professor Aufrecht ascribes the first ten verses to the Akrishtas, whereas Sâyana calls them Åkrishtas. It is perfectly true that the best MSS. of the Anukramanika have Akrishta, it is equally true that the name of these Akrishtas is spelt with a short a in the Harivamsa, 11,533, but an editor of Sayana's work is not to alter the occasional mistakes of that learned commentator, and Sayana certainly called these poets Akrishtas.
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