________________ INTRODUCTION TO THE KHADIRA-GRIHYA-SUTRA. AMONG the Grantha MSS. collected by the late Dr. Burnell and now belonging to the India Office Library, there are some MSS. (numbers CLXXII and following of the Catalogue) of a Grihya-sutra hitherto unpublished, which is ascribed to Khadirakarya. It belongs to the Drahyayana school of the Sama-veda, which prevails in the south of the Indian peninsula', and it is based on the Gobhiliya-satra, from which it has taken the greater number of its aphorisms, just as the Drahyayana-Srautasatra, as far as we can judge at present, is nothing but a slightly altered redaction of Latyayana?. Like the GobhilaGrihya it very seldom gives the Mantras in their full extent, but quotes them only with their Pratikas, and it is easy to identify these quotations in the Mantrabrahmana (published at Calcutta, 1873), which contains the texts prescribed by Gobhila for the Grihya ceremonies. The Khadira-Grihya has evidently been composed with the intention of abridging Gobhila's very detailed and somewhat lengthy treatise on the domestic rites. Digressions, such as, for instance, that introduced by the words tatraihad a huh, Gobhila I, 2, 10-27, or such as Gobhila's explication of the terms paurnama si and amavasya, I, 5, 7 seqq., or most of the regulations concerning the Sakvaryas, III, 3, or the Slokas, IV, 7, are invariably left 1 See Dr. Burnell's Catalogue, p. 56. * Weber, Vorlesungen uber indische Literaturgeschichte (and edition), p. 87: Almost the entire difference between this Satra and that of Latyayana lies in the arrangement of the matter treated of, which is in itself very nearly the same in both texts, and is expressed in the same words.' Comp. Anandakandra Vedantavagisa's Introduction to his edition of Latyayana in the Bibliotheca Indica), pp. 2, 3, and his statements on Drahyayana in the notes of that edition. B b 2 Digitized by Digitized by Google
