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BAUDHAYANA.
the Government of Bombay at Kolhapur in the southern Maratha country (Elphinstone College collection of 186768, Class VI, no. 2). The MSS. of the northern group, which give the vulgata current since the times of Nîlakantha (1650 A.D.) and Mitramisra (circiter 1700 A.D.) in Western and Central India, can be easily recognised by the omission of the third Adhyâya of Prasna IV, and by their placing IV, 5, 16-25 after IV, 7, 7. One of the chief differences between K. and the other MSS. of the northern group is the omission of II, 5, 8, 4-II, 6, 11, 15 in the latter. The southern group of MSS. is formed by M., a slovenly Devanagarî transcript of a Grantha MS., no. 10 mg of the Madras Government collection', and by the text of C. I., a Devanagarî copy of the MS. of Govindasvâmin's commentary, presented by Dr. Burnell to the India Office library? The second copy of the commentary, C. T., a Telugu paper MS. from Tanjore, I owe to the kindness of Dr. Burnell.
As might be expected, on account of the southern origin of the Baudhayanîya school, M. gives on the whole the best form of the text. It also carefully marks the Kandikâs in the first two Prasnas, ignoring the Adhyâyas altogether, and contains at the end of each Prasna the first words of each Kandika, beginning with the last and ending with the first, after the fashion which prevails in the MSS. of the Taittirîya Samhitâ, Brâhmana, and Aranyaka. Very close to M. comes Govinda's copy, where, however, as in most northern MSS., the Adhyâyas alone are marked. It is, however, perfectly certain that in some very difficult passages, which are disfigured by ancient corruptions, he corrected the text conjecturally4. In a certain number of cases the northern MSS. present better and older readings than M. and C. I. Under these
1 Taylor, Catalogue Raisonnée (!), I, p. 190. The clerical errors in my transcript are exceedingly numerous, and mostly owing to the faulty rendering of the value of the Grantha characters, which seem not to have been familiar to the copyist. There are also some small lacunae, and the last leaf has been lost.
See Burnell, Catalogue of a Collection of MSS., P. 35, no. CXVII. 'I alone am responsible for the title Kandikâ, given to the small sections. M. marks only the figures. D. and the better northern MSS. show only breaks at the end of the Kandikâs and their first words at the end of the Prasnas. * See e.g. Dharma-sútra 1, 2, 3, 35, note.
See e. g. Dharma-sůtra I, 5, 11, 35; II, 1, 2, 36; II, 2, 3, 3; II, 2, 4, 10; II, 3, 6, 3; II, 7, 12, 5; III, 9, 3.
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