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THM INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JANTARY, 5, 1872.
Darshap (ir namás a sacrifices, P.IV—VIII, the initiation agny à dheya and remaining havir yajia rites; P. IX contains the priſy ash chit
on the first twenty-four prashnas, and Kásika
ta for those ceremonies; P. X—XVII describe the
on this siſtra (v. Max Müller As. Soc. Jour, p. 380 note), but I have not seen his work. In the fourteenth century Chaun q appa wrote a very diffusive commentary, but I have only
Soma sacrifices&c.; P. XVIII, the Vájapey a and Rājastly a P. XIX, the Sautrām an i, Káth ak achiti, and Kit my esh ti; P. XX, the Ashvamedha and Purush am edha; P. XXI, the Dvādash á ha and Mahá vrata; P. XXII,
the Utsargin (m-ayana ; and P. XXIII, the Sattriſy ana. In Prashna XXIV, there are three sections: the Paribhushāsūtra (translated by Professor Max Müller in the German Oriental
Society's Journal, IX.), the Pracarkhanda and the Hautraka. Prashnas XXV and XXVI contain
the man tras for the grihy a rites, and P. XXVII contains the Grihy a tan tra. Of this section Dr. Eggeling has an edition in hand. Pra shnas XXVIII and XXIX contain the Dhar
mas à tra which has been edited by Dr. Bühler. The last prashna contains the Shulva stitra. The manuscript described is of the early part of the last century, and is in the grantha charac ter.
Rām a has annotated
the work of the last.
Gurudev as wāmiſ is also said to have written
seen
the first three sections.
There is also a
commentary by A hobala which appears to be of
the seventeenth century. Haradatta Mishra explained the XXVth, XXVIth, XXVIIIth, and XXIXth, sections, and on the last two there
seems to have been another commentary, as there is a quotation from such a work in the Smriti chandrik iſ, which I cannot find in any copy of Haradatta's commentary accessible to me. There is a comment on P. XXVII by Darsha n iſ rya or Sudarsh a náry a. On prashna XXX there are comments by Karavinda sv ſimii,
Ka pard as v iſ miſ, and Sundararája. As I have several good manuscripts of all these works, I hope sometime to bring out an edition and translation of this interesting section which I have long had nearly ready. Very useful for
To these thirty prashna may be added two
the understanding of the Shrauta and Grihya
more which treat of the Pit rim edha &c. and
(tantra) parts are the two prayoga by Tála
nearly agree with parts of the Hiranyakeshi (Prashnas. XXVIII and XXIX) and Bh (rad v iſja Sūtra. In Chau in lappa's commentary on
wrint an iv iſ siń. The whole of these may,
the A'past amba Sūtra they are not mentioned, though in his introduction he gives the order of the chapters as described above, and expressly states that the work contains thirty sections. There are several commentaries on the A'pas
I believe be found, but in fragments, and generally very incorrectly copied. Few Brah mans care to get more of the work than they
require for the time, and very few shrotriyas are grammarians, or well acquainted with modern Sanskrit. As there is very little chance that
but there is every reason to believe that he only
it will be ever possible to bring out an edition of the whole of this immense siſtra, it is satis factory to be able to add that it does not appear to differ materially from the Kátyáy an a
finished fifteen prashnas.
Sútra edited by Dr. Weber.
tamba Sūtra.
It ud radatta was one of the
earliest who attempted to explain this huge work K a pard is w iſ m in
and Durvasvámin most probably commented
Tanjor, Nov. 1871.
A LEGEND OF SERPENT WORSHIP.
From BHAUNAGAR IN KATHIAWAD.
THERE was once a king who had seven wives, others cooked and ate thir (rice boiled in milk) of whom six were favoured but one was disliked
by him. No member of her father's family being alive, she was obliged to take such food as was given her by her mother-in-law and deróni jethini." This poor creature was content
to take the refuse of the food left by the other members of the family. One day when all the
she longed to have some of it, but alas! whence could she hope to obtain it 2 She took all the
cooking pots, which were given her to wash, to the river, and scraping out what adhered to their sides, she collected it all into one pot and then went to bathe. Meanwhile a Náyan (female snake) coming out of its ráfadá (or
- The younger brother's wife is dcrant to an elder brother's wife, who, in turn, is jethani to the former,
