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.
The Khandahsankhyâ I have found in two MSS. only; in W 2, already described, and in I 5, a MS. belonging to the India Office, in which it comes immediately after the text of the Sarvânukramanî. The latter part of this MS. I have not collated, having obtained it after the text of the Sarvânukramanî was printed.
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THE VEDARTHADIPIKA.
Shadgurusishya, who five times1 gives the above title to his commentary, lived in the middle of the period of the revival of Vedic studies in India, almost half-way between Kumârila and Sâyana. He flourished, as he tells us himself (see p. 168, verses 13-14), in the latter half of the twelfth century. His commentary on the Sarvânukramanî shows him to have been a man of some originality and of considerable learning, grammatical no less than Vedic. In the conclusion of his commentary (p. 168, verses 16-17) he enumerates the seven works in which he was specially instructed by his six teachers. In Appendix V there is given a complete list of the quotations to be found in his commentary with the sole exception of the continual references to the sûtras of Pânini's grammar2. Quotations from nearly all the works of Saunaka occur, but the lion's share among these falls to the Brihaddevatâ, which is mentioned twentyfive times, and from which no fewer than 46 slokas are cited. Besides occasional references to the Samhitâs and Brâhmanas of the other Vedas, to Manu, the Bhagavadgîtâ, the Mahâbhârata, and other works, the great majority of the quotations naturally come from the Aitareya Brâhmana and Aranyaka, and from the Srauta and Grihya Sutras of Âsvalâyana. The Aitareya Brahmana is in the conclusion (p. 168, ver. 16) called the Katvârimsadbrâhmana, while the Bhagavadgîtâ is once referred to as the Gîtopanishakkhruti. It is worthy of notice that Shadgurusishya always refers to the fifth Aranyaka as the fourth, apparently looking upon the fourth and fifth as one book. Pingala's Khandah Sûtras he mentions under the title of the Khandovikiti at the end of his work3, where he
1 Twice in the introduction, ver. 6: सर्वानुक्रमणीवृत्तिर्नाम्ना वेदार्थदीपिका, and vers. 65-6 : वृतिर्नाना वेदार्थदीपिका guigfa:; and in his conclusion, p. 167,
ver. 12, and p. 168, vers. 13 and 18.
2 A few passages of little or no importance, quoted vaguely with J, mii, quà, will be found by looking up those words in the Index.
3 See comm. on X, 191.
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