A History of Sanskrit Literature c12.5

c12.5

Three Çrauta Sūtras to the *Sāmaveda* have been preserved. The oldest, that of Maçaka, also called *Ārsheya-kalpa*, is nothing more than an enumeration of the prayers belonging to the various ceremonies of the Soma sacrifice in the order of the *Panchaviṃça Brāhmaṇa*. The Çrauta Sūtra composed by Lāṭyāyana, became the accepted manual of the Kauthuma school. This Sūtra, like that of Maçaka, which it quotes, is closely connected with the *Panchaviṃça Brāhmaṇa*. The Çrauta Sūtra of Drāhyāyaṇa, which differs but little from that of Lāṭyāyana, belongs to the Rāṇāyanīya branch of the *Sāmaveda*.