A History of Sanskrit Literature c6.32

c6.32

¹ The other three systems are: (1) that of the *Maitrāyaṇī* and *Kāṭhaka Saṃhitās* (two recensions of the Black *Yajurveda*), which mark the acute with a vertical stroke above; (2) that of the *Çatapatha Brāhmaṇa*, which marks the acute with a horizontal stroke below; and (3) that of the *Sāmaveda*, which indicates the three accents with the numerals 1, 2, 3, to distinguish three degrees of pitch, the acute (1) here being the highest.