A History of Sanskrit Literature c12.57

c12.57

To the Sūtras is attached a very extensive literature of *Pariçishṭas* or "supplements," which seem to have existed in all the Vedic schools. They contain details on matters only touched upon in the Sūtras, or supplementary information about subjects not dealt with at all by them. Thus, there is the *Āçvalāyana Gṛihya-pariçishṭa*, in four chapters, connected with the *Rigveda*. The *Gobhila saṃgraha-pariçishṭa* is a compendium of Gṛihya practices in general, with a special leaning towards magical rites, which came to be attached to the *Sāmaveda*. Closely related to, and probably later than this work, is the *Karma-pradīpa* ("lamp of rites"), also variously called *sāma-gṛihya-* or *chhāndogyagṛihya-pariçishṭa*, *chhandoga-pariçishṭa*, *Gobhila-smṛiti*, attributed to the Kātyāyana of the *White Yajurveda* or to Gobhila. It deals with the same subjects, though independently, as the *Gṛihya* *saṃgraha*, with which it occasionally agrees in whole *çlokas*.