India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c10.s3.t1.40

c10.s3.t1.40

*BRĀHMAṆAS OF THIRTY AND FORTY ADHYĀAS*—Pāṇini mentions two Brāhmaṇa works by the names of 'Thirty and Forty Adhyāyas', called *Triṁśa* and *Chātvāriṁśa* respectively (*Triṁśach-chatvāriṁśator-Brāhmaṇe saṁjñāyāṁ ḍan*, V.1.62). The *Kaushītakī Brāhmaṇa* is of 30 and the *Aitareya* of 40 *adhyāyas*. As Keith states: 'The *Kaushītakī Brāhmaṇa* and the *Aitareya* were both known to Pāṇini, who in his grammar (V.1.62) mentions the formation of the names of Brāhmaṇas with thirty and forty *Adhyāyas*. The same conclusion as to their relation to Pāṇini is clearly proved by their language which is decidedly older than the Bhāshā of Pāṇini, as Liebich has shown in detail for its verbal forms, and as is not disputed by any scholar.' (Keith, *Ṛigveda Brāhmaṇas*, *H.O.S.*, Vol. 25, p. 42).