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The Ist contains 24 and 191 2nd 99 4 „ 43 3rd V 5 „ 62 4th 99 5 ,, 58 5th 99 6 87 6th 99 6 „ 75 7th 9 6 „ 104 8th 99 10 „ 92(+llV&lakhilya8) 9th 99 7 „ 114 10th 99 12 „ 191 The 10 have 85 and 1017+11=1028. The B£Lshkala-6akh4had 8 hymns more=1025 hymns. The 64 Adhy&yas have 2006 Vargas. These are arranged as follows: — Verses. Vargas. Verses. Vargas consisting of 1 = 1= 1 2 = 2= 4 3 = 97 = 291 4 = 174= 696 5 = 1207 = 6035 6 = 346= 2076 7 = 119= 833 8 = 59 = 472 9 = 1= 9 64 Adhy&yas = 2,006=10,417 Here we have to observe a diflference between the number of verses, as deduced from the Vargas, and the number stated by j^aunaka. The latter gives the 1 Trini sat^ni shatkan&m cbatyftriniat shat cba varg&h. ANUKBAMANtS. 221 sum total of ver8e8= 10,580^, but, immediately after- wards, the sum totalof half verses=21,232i= 10,616 verses. How this difference arose it is difficult to say ; but it should be observed that, if we divide the sum total of half verses, 21,232, by 2, we get 10,616 verses, and this number comes very near to 10,622, which the Charanavy^ha gives as the sum total of the verses of the Rig-veda. According to the Charana- vyAha (MS. Ch. 785.) the 64 Adhy&yas of the Rig- veda have : — Verses. Vargas. Verses. msisti ngof 1 = 1 = 1 2 = 2 = 4 3 = 93 = 279 4 = 176 = 704 6 = 1228 = 6140 6 = 367 = 2142 7 = 129 = 903 8 = 65 = 440 9 = 1 = 9 2042 10,622 The number of padas or words in the Rig-veda- sanhitft is stated as 153,826, which gives an average of between 14 to 15 words to each verse. Another computation brings the number of the charch&-padas (i. e. words which are used in the Ejamapd.tha, omit- ting the repeated passages or galitas) to 110,704, and the number of syllables to 432,000. In another Anukramani, l§aunaka gives a list of verses, arranged according to the metres in which they are written ; and at the end he states the sum but here ekgalxi, if -we cast I each metre, according to 10,409 insteaa of 10,402. rtling if -we coxiaider the exegetical vroT>ts of the y arise eith-ex" from faults iVramania, ox* from the fact ^ere included, though, ac- ofeaaions, \>otK ^aunaka and to exclude tUese later hymns ^\9. 'I^® following table will ^i tnetrea according to Sau- •grovight forward 9793 5' Xahti . . 6 \ Myaahti - - 84 ^^ Dhriti * - . 2 gV Xtidhriti - - 1 ^V^ ^kapadS. - - 6 ^5* Dvipad& - - 17 ^4ft prag&tha Bfi,rhata 194 ' \'^ Kfitfeubha - - 55 26 Mah&b&rhata - 251 10,409 9793 . .Pda we have three Anukmma^is, '^^kb&of the Taittirlyas, the other S't Cb^^ya^tyas, the third for IXn:^t:Sanhit.only,but , MS. E. I. H. 1623. 965. ANUKRAMANis. 223 also of the Br4hmana and the Aranyaka. Its object is not simply to enumerate the Edjidas (Ashtakas), Pra^uaSy Anuvakas, and K&ndiklLs as they follow in the text, but rather to indicate the chief subjects of this Veda, and to bring together the different pas- sages where the same sacrifice with its supplements is treated. Though we do not possess a MS. of the Atreyi4&kh&, it is possible to identify nearly the whole of the Index with the text of the Sanhitfi, ^, the BrfLhmana % and the Aranyaka ^ which we pos- sess. The Atreyi-6akh&, though not mentioned in the Charanavyiiha, must be considered as a sub- division of the Aukhiya*^kh& ; and the Anukramani says that VaiSarap&yana handed it down to Yfiska Paingi, Y&ska to Tittiri, Tittiri to Ukha, and Ukha to Atreya, who was the author of a Pada-text*, while Kundina composed a commentary (vritti) on the same iSfl,kh&. The Apastamba-6akhd, of which we possess the complete Br^hmana, is a subdivision of the Kh&ndikeyas. There is a curious tradition, preserved in the K&n- d&nukrama, that, although the greater portion of the Atreyi-S&khll was originally taught by Tittiri, some chapters of it owed their origin to Eatha, the founder of the K&thaka-S4khd.. This assertion is confirmed by S&yana in his Commentary on the Taittiriy&ran- yaka. The chapters ascribed to Eatha and called the Ellthakam, are found at the end of the Br&hmana and the beginning of the Aranyaka. They contain MS. E. L H. 1701, 1702 ; name of Sakha unknown. ' MS. E. L H. 293, containing the three books of the Apastam- ba-brahmana. MS. e1 L H. 1690, &c. < See MS. Bodl. Wilson, 361. 224 AKUKRAMANts. 1. The Sllvitrd.gnichayana with the Br&hmana, Tait.-brilhm. iii. 10. 2. The NUchiketachayana, Tait.-br. iii. 11. 3. DivahSyenaya ishtayah. Tait.-br. iii. 12. 1&2. ' 4. Ap&dyA ishtayah. Tait.-br. iii. 12. 3 & 4. 5. Ch&turhotrachiti. Tait.-br. iii. 12. 5 6. Vaifivasrijachiti. Tait.-br. iii. 12. 6 — 9, end of Br&hmana. 7. Arunaketukachiti. Tait.-llranyaka, i. 1. 8. Sy&dhyHya-br&hmana. Tait.-aranyaka, i. 2. They are given here as they follow one another in the text of the Apastamba-I§&khd^ and this order is con- firmed in every particular by Sayana's Commentary (MS. E. L H. 1145), which is in fact a commentary intended for the Apastamba-^kh& of the Taittiriya- br&hmana. According to his introductory remarks prefixed to each Anuv&ka, the S&vitrachiti occupies the tenth, the N&chiketachiti the eleventh Prap&thaka. In the twelfth Prap&thaka, he remarks, the Ch&turhotra and Yaifivasrija should be explained. But as the ishtis, called the Divah^yenis and Ap&dyd.s, form part of the complete Chllturhotra (they stand either in the middle or at the end of it), they are explained first. Thus we find in the beginning of the twelfth Prapfi,- thaka (iii. 12. 1.), the pratikas of the yfi.jyfljiuvfi.ky&s of the Divahfiyenis ; in iii. 12. 2. the rules for the same ishtis ; and in the same manner, the Ydjyd.nuv&kylLs of the Ap&dySs in iii. 12. 8., and the rules in iii. 12. 4. Then follows the Ch&turhotra-chayana in iii. 12. 5 , and in the last four Anuvakas the Yai&vasrija- chayana. A difierent order seems to have been observed in the Atreyi-6&kh& of the Taittinya-br&hmana, for, although the same chapters are here ascribed to AVUKRAMAKtS. 225 Eatha, their arrangement must have differed, unless we suppose that the author of the E&ndd^nukrama in- troduced an alteration. He writes : " T&vat Tittirih provicha. (Tittiris Taittirlya&Hkh&pravartako 'ny©. bhyo munibhyah feishyebhyah provftcha.) Ath&shtau E&thaklUii (athUnantaram EUthakai^hllpravartakena EUthakamuninft proktiny uchyante) : 1. S&vitra, Taittirtya-br&hma^ia, iii. 10. 2. Nd<;hiketa „ ,, iii. II. 3. Ch&turhotra ,, ,, iii. 12. 5. 4. Vaifivasrija „ „ iii. 12. 6 — 9. 5. Aruna, Taittiriya-d.ranyaka, i. 1. 6. Divahfiyenls, Taittiriya-brilhmana, iii. 12. 1 — 2. 7. Apfidy&s „ „ iii. 12. 3 — 4. 8. Svfidhy&ya-brfthniana, Taittiriya-Aranyaka, i. 2.^ The second Anukramani of the Yajur-veda which we possess, belongs to the Ch&r&yaniya-8d.kh&, and is called the Mantr&rshfi,dhyfl.ya.^ The only copy which we have of it is found in the same MS. which con- tains the Charaka-6&khlL,' and it is evidently intended as an index to this 6&kh&. Nor is there anything anomalous in this, if we remember that the ChSL- r&yaniya-6&khft is a subdivision of the Charaka-^kh&. But what is less intelligible is the title given to the text, which instead of Yajur-veda, is called in the MS. Yajur-veda-k&thaka. This title, EAthaka, cannot well refer to the ^khd. of the Eathas, for this is itself a subdivision of the Charakas. It must most likely be taken in the same sense in which Eftthaka was explained before, t, e. " E&thakamunin&proktam;" though it is strange that the very chapters which in the Apastamba- 1 See Catalogue of the Berlin MSS., No. 142. 3 The title is '' Ekottaratetadhvaryai^haprabhedabhinne YjUnrYedakathake Charaka^hft.** Q ^ t>.e Taittirlyalca are ascribed to Katha, are ^ *i our ^^kbk, while all the other sac^fic^ ^ J described in the Taittiriya-8anhit4 and Brah- ^ laid down in very much the ^^fj^^^l' j;1rd Anukramani, that of the M^dhyandina- Pl^^ -^r the YHjasaneyaka, is ascribed to KfttySr ti^ "^ fao ia mentioned also as the author of an -'^^_„tramanl. It gives the names of the poets, ^73-^**^ - and the metres, for all the verses of the ^^e i *^ *^7^cluding the Khila ( Adhy&ya 26-35.) and ' ■Ljt^k'^ ' -t^ii. portions. (^Adhy. 36—40.) ^ ^^^ je: *~*-5^ e.