Maisor Prachya Koshagarastha Likhit Sanskrit Granth Suchi

Author(s): M S Basavalingayya, T T Srinivasgopalachar
Publisher: Oriental Library

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Some others divide Sāma Samhitā into thirteen parts as follows :
The Arcika consists of four parts, namely, Chandas, Aranyaka, Māhānāmna and Uttara. Stobha is a separate work by itself. The Gāna consists of four main parts, namely, Geya, Aranyaka, Uha, and Uhya with their supplemnents-Māhānāmna, Bhāruņda, Tavaśyāviya and Gāyatra.
Some are of opinion that since the Arcika portion cannot be chanted, only the Gāna portion of the Sāma Samhitā should be treated as Sama Veda proper. In all the Rk Sambitā manuscripts of the Library, the swaras are indicated by means of writing letters “Ka,” etc., in place of the usual rekhas.
Taittiriya Samhita Bhasya.--Of the various sākhăs of the Black Yajurveda, the Taittiriya Sakhā is the best known. Bhatta Bhāskara has written a commentary, styled Jñānayajña, on the Samhitā, Brāhmaṇa and Aranyaka of this Taittiriya Sākhā. Sāvana also has written a commentary styled Vedārthaprakāśa on the above. Both Bhatta Bhāskara and Sāyana are well-versed in all branches of learning, and the commentaries of both are well known as having been written on the basis of the ancient Vaidika tradition. In regard to these two commentators, there is a controversy still going on as to who flourished first. Some scholars, relying on variant readings of the words “rogram
leh" appearing in an autobiographical verse of Bhatta Bhaskara, have come to different conclusions regarding the date of Bhatta Bhāskara, and tried to swing him from the 10th to the 15th century A.D. Dr. R. Shāma Săstri, according to his preface to his edition of Taittiriya Brāhmaṇa, has come to the conclusion that Blatta Bhāskara is decidedly posterior to Sāyaṇa. He mainly bases his arguments on the following verse of Bhatta Bhāskara :
एष निष्पावके शाके कुशिकान्वयजन्मना ।
भट्टभास्करमिश्रेण ज्ञानयज्ञः प्रकीर्तितः ॥ He says that the author intends, in the words "font