A History of Sanskrit Literature c12.51

c12.51

Finally, Kātyāyana's two Anukramaṇīs or indices, mentioned below, each contains a section, varying but slightly from the other, on Vedic metres. These sections are, however, almost identical in matter with the sixteenth *paṭala* of the *Rigveda Prātiçākhya*, and may possibly be older than the corresponding passage in the *Prātiçākhya*, though the latter work as a whole is doubtless anterior to the *Anukramaṇī*.