5. Pāippalāda and Vulgate Correspondents
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Conspectus of the Contents of Pāippalāda book xviii. | |||||
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Vulgate |
Birch-bark | ||||
leaf side |
line | ||||
| xiv. | 1. | 1a | satyenottabhīta bhūmis (then substantially the whole hymn: 5 pages) | 227b | 20 |
| 64d | civā syonāṣ patiloke vi rāja (end of hymn) | 230a | 12 | ||
| Colophon of anuvāka 1 | 13 | ||||
| 2. | 1a | tubhyam agre pary avahan (then substantially the whole hymn: 6 pp.) | 13 | ||
| 75d | dīrghan tāyus savitā kṛṇotu (end of hymn and book) | 233a | 11 | ||
| Colophon of anuvāka 2 | 15 | ||||
| xiii. | 1 | 1a | udīhi vājin yo ‘psv antar (then substantially the whole hymn: 4 pp.) | 15 | |
| Colophon of anuvāka 3 | 235a | 14 | |||
| 55e | rohitena riṣaṇābhṛtam (end of hymn: vss. 56-60 wanting) | 20 | |||
| 2. | 1a | ud asya ketavo divi (then substantially the whole hymn: 4 pp.) | 20 | ||
| 46d | pra bhānavas sasṛje nā[kam a]cha (end of hymn: not of book) | 237b | 1 | ||
| Colophon of anuvāka 4 | 16 | ||||
Vulgate xiii. 3 and paryāya-hymn xiii. 4 are wanting | |||||
| xv. | 1. | 1 | vrādyāu vā ida agra āsīt (with most of paryāya 1: 7 lines) | 16 | |
| 8 | to iti brahmavādino vadanti (end of paryāya 1) | 238a | 1 | ||
| 2. | 1 | then sa prācīn diçam anu vy acalat (and no more of xv.) | 2 | ||
| xvi. | 1. | 1 | atisṛṣṭo apāṁ vṛṣabho (then 3 or 4 verse of paryāya 1: 3 lines) | 2 | |
| 4. | 7 | agnir me dakṣaṁ dadhātu (end of Vulgate anuvāka 1) | 6 | ||
| 5. | 1 | vidma te svapna janitram (beginning of Vulgate anuvāka 2) | 6 | ||
| 9. | 1 | jitam asmākam udbhin[n]am asmākam (beginning of last paryāya, namely 9 [not 8], of Vulgate anuvāka 2): then 4 lines | 6 | ||
| 4 | ending with vasumān bhūyāsam (end of Vulgate anuvāka 2) | 11 | |||
| Colophon of anuvāka 5 | 12 | ||||
| xvii. | 1. | 1a | viṣāsahyaṁ sahamānam (then substantially the whole hymn, namely 2 or 3 pages, ending) | 12 | |
| 30d | sahasraṁ prāṇā mayu te ramantām (end of hymn and book) | 6 | |||
Then follows, without a syllable intervening, | |||||
| xviii. | 4. | 89 | candramā apsv antar ā (the entire last verse of hymn and book) | 6 | |
| Colophon of Pāippalāda book xviii. | 9 | ||||
| vi. | 1. | 1 | doṣo gāya bṛhad gāya (as beginning in Pāipp. xix.) | 11 | |
are ignored entirely. —It appears, secondly, that the order of Vulgate xiii. and xiv. is inverted in Pāipp.; but that the order of the remaining four books is the same for both recensions. —It appears, thirdly, that Pāipp. xviii. consists of 6 anuvākas, and that these anuvākas correspond in the main to certain Vulgate anuvākas: anuvākas 1 and 2 of Pāipp. to the two long anuvāka-hymns which make up Vulgate xiv.; 3 and 4 of Pāipp. to the first two anuvāka-hymns of Vulgate xiii.; and anuvāka 6 of
