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Among the treatises dealing with the measurement, etc., of the Vedis, the two most important are the Śulva-sūtras of Baudhāyana and of Āpastamba. Two smaller treatises, a Mānava Śulvasūtra and a Maitrāyaṇīya Śulva-sūtra bear the stamp of later times, compared with the works of Baudhāyana and Āpastamba, which are entitled to the first place by a clearer and more extensive treatment of the topics in question. The literature of the white Yajur-veda possesses a Śulva-pariśishṭa, ascribed to Kātyāyana, and Dr. Thibaut rightly thinks that there is not a sufficient reason for doubting that it was really composed by the author of the Kalpa-sūtra.