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lations of parts of §§ 5 and 7. I am informed by Dr L. D. Barnett of the British Museum that the MS used by Kern has been lost; consequently the bits of Sanscrit text mentioned above are of some value. It is also of interest that, on the strength of the historical passage, Kern dated the Gārgī Samhitā to *c.* 50 B.C.,¹ that is, he agreed very nearly with Jayaswal’s dating of the original, for that he should confuse the date of the Gārgī Samhitā itself with the date of certain information contained in it was in 1865 inevitable; even to-day it is unhappily not uncommon to find statements preserved by some secondary Hellenistic writer assigned to that writer’s own date.