Upnidana Sutram

Author(s): Mangaldev Shastri
Publisher: Mangaldev Shastri

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INTRODUCTION I. HUW I CAJE TO EDIT THE WORK.
It was in the beginning of 1930 that I, for the first time, examined in detail a JS. (hereafter called B') of the Upanidāna-sitra in the Government Sanskrit Library, Benares. The examination revealed that it contained a work which was of cousiderable importance for the Vedic metre in general and especially for the metres of the Sāma-veda. I at once made up my mind to bring out a ritical edition of the work. But the princity of the manuscript material seemed to offer a great difficulty. Up to that time there was no indication that there was any other AIS. of the same work in our Library. None of our \lanuscript Catalogues mentioned any other MS. of this name. A reference to the catalogues of other manuscript libraries proved eyaally discouraging, as I did not come across this name anywhere in those catalogues. Under these circumstances I most reluctantly gave up the idea of its edition for the time being. Only one MS. did not appear to be enough for the purpose of its critical edition.
Fortunately only a few days after, I happened to read through the l'aju -sarvānukramani with the commentary of Deva Yājnika. In this commentary I noticed a great many Sūtras ou metre quoted from a work called Chandogapariţişta. On examination, to my great but at the sme time pleasant surprise, I found that the Sutras were quotations from our Upanidānasütra which was called here Chandogaparisista. It led wc to re-examine the alore-nentioned sources with a