Katyayanas Sarvanvkramani of Rigveda

SR No.: 020440
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A A Macdonell
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Publication Year: 1886
Total Pages: 254
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 12 MB

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PREFACE.
has only two quotations from this anukramanî. Of these I was able to verify the second only, the first occurring in mandala I.
Of the Devatânukramanî no MS. appears to have been found, but judging by the ten quotations in Shadgurusishya, it was composed in the mixed versel peculiar to Saunaka's works, and showed similar irregularities of metre to those of the Anuvâkânukramani?. It must have been a work not unlike the Brihaddevatâ, though, no doubt, much shorter.
The Suktânukramani is neither known to exist, nor is it quoted by Shadgurusishya. There is, however, no reason to suppose that it did not exist in Shadgurusishya's time, like the remaining eight works which he attributes to Saunaka, and all of which are still extant. (The tenth, the Smârta Sûtra of Saunaka, is stated by Shadgurusishya to have been destroyed by that author in favour of his pupil Åsvalâyana 6.) Judging from the subject-matter of the other anukramanîs, this was probably chiefly an index of pratîkas, and as such would not call for quotation.
The Anuvâkânukramanî is not only thrice quoted by Shadgurusishya, but was specially commentated on by him. Both the text and the commentary are printed in this edition. Several MSS. of this index exist, six having been collated by me.
Besides the above five among the ten books of Saunaka, there is another well-known work, which though not called an anukramani is practically one, the Brihaddevatâ, which contains about 1050 slokas. Shadgurusishya calls it an anukramanî in his comm. on Rigv. X, 71, and indeed speaks of all Saunaka's works as anukramanîs in another passage 6. The editing of this index, though it exists in several MSS., will prove a matter of considerable difficulty owing to the widely divergent readings it contains. Professor Max Müller possesses three fairly correct MSS. of it, which have been of great service to me for collating with the numerous and often extensive quotations from this work in the Vedârthadîpika.
Lastly, there is another anukramanî work attributed to Saunaka. It is quoted by Shadgurusishya as another in his commentary to the Sarvânukramani", where he quotes the whole introduction (with the exception of the first two verses), which treats of the Atikkhandas metres.
Cp. the quotation in comm. on I, 165.
See comm. on 1, 112. The Årshầnukramanî seems to contain similar irregularities; see p. 86, line 1.
3 See what is said below about the Padânukramani, + Cp. Meyer, Rigvidhana, p. ii, note 4. Max Müller, A.S.L., p. 235.
6 Introd., $ 1,1.
? Introd., § 11, 6.