A History of Sanskrit Literature c12.15

c12.15

To the *Rigveda* belongs in the first place the *Çāṅkhāyana Gṛihya Sūtra*. It consists of six books, but only the first four form the original portion of the work, and even these contain interpolations. Closely connected with this work is the *Çāmbavya Gṛihya*, which also belongs to the school of the Kaushītakins, and is as yet known only in manuscript. Though borrowing largely from Çāṅkhāyana, it is not identical with that work. It knows nothing of the last two books, nor even a number of ceremonies described in the third and fourth, while having a book of its own concerning the sacrifice to the Manes. Connected with the *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa* is the Gṛihya Sūtra of Āçvalāyana, which its author in the first aphorism gives us to understand is a continuation of his Çrauta Sūtra. It consists of four books, and, like the latter work, ends with the words "adoration to Çaunaka."