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SÂN KHẤYANA-GRIHYA-SOTRA. 20. Let him thus recite (the hymns belonging to) each Rishi, or (each) Anuvâka ;
21. Of the short hymns in the tenth Mandala) an Anuvâka,
22. Or as much as the master may think fit.
23. Or optionally he may recite the first and last hymn of (each) Rishi,
24. Or of (each) Anuvâka,
25. (Or) one (verse) of the beginning of each hymn.
26. The teacher may optionally say at the beginning of the hymn, 'This is the commencement.'
27. This has been (further) explained in (the treatise about) the Rishisvâdhyâya.
substance, a complete knowledge thereof has been produced.' The commentator then indicates a shorter form for the teacher's words which our Sätra prescribes by esheti, This verse belongs to Savitar; it is a Gâyatrî; its Rishi is Visvâmitra.'
21. The Kshudrasûktas are the hymns Rig-veda X, 129-191.
24 seq. This seems to be an abridged method by which students who had not the intention of becoming Vedic scholars, and probably chiefly students of the Kshatriya and Vaisya caste, could fulfil their duty of learning the Veda; a student who knew the first and last hymn of a Rishi, or of an Anuvâka, was, as would seem from these Sätras, by a sort of fiction considered as though he had known the whole portion belonging to that Rishi, or the whole Anuvâka.
27. Nârâyana explains Rishisvâdhyâya by mantrasamhita. He says, "The Anuvâkana which has been declared here, is to be understood also with regard to the svadhyâya, i. e. to the Samhita of the Mantras.' I think there is a blunder in the MS., and instead of tad api svâdhyâye... gñeyam we ought to read tad rishisvadhyâye ... gneyam. In this case we should have to translate the quoted passage,'... is to be understood with regard to the Rishisvadhyâya, i. e. to, &c.'- I think, however, that the true meaning of the Sûtra is different from what Narayana believes it to be. The expression vyakhyâtam apparently conveys a reference to another treatise in which the rules regarding the Rishisvadhyâya would seem to have been fully set forth. The Srauta-sûtra contains
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