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GRAMMAR
A. VEDIC GRAMMAR
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ऋक्तन्त्रव्याकरण
şiktantravyākarana
No.1
92
1879-80
Size - 74 in. by 41 in.
Extent-7 leaves; 9 lines to a page; about 20 letters to a line.
Description - Country paper, Devanāgari characters; bold
legible and fairly correct handwriting ; red chalk used, and corrections made in yellow pigment. Complete in five prapāthakas. The first prapāthaka is, however, in this Ms. counted twice over, so that the last Prapāthaka is oalled the 4th.
Age-Samvat 1723.
Author - Not given. Attributed to śākațāyana, who is quoted as
an authority.
Subject - A short treatise on Vedic grammar and accents of the
Prātiśākhya type, called after the Rigveda, but probably relating to the Sāmaveda. The first Prapāthaka has four sub-sections, the second six, the third. eight, the fourth seven and the fifth also seven.
Begins - ॐ सामवेदाय नमः । अथ वाचोवृत्तिं व्याख्यास्यामो वायु
प्रकृतिमाचार्या वायुर्मूईछासी भवति । श्वासो नाद इति शाकटायनो वायुरयमस्मिन् काये मूर्छत्यटतीत्येषोऽर्थः । स खलु खविशेष प्रतिपन्नः कण्ठं प्रतिपन्नः श्वसितिर्भवति । स श्वसितिः
