A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c8.s2.48

c8.s2.48

We remarked before, that the Anukramaṇi of Kâtyâyana, if compared with the Anuvâkânukramaṇi of Śaunaka, shows the same progress in style which we may always observe between these two writers. Śaunaka writes in mixed Ślokas, and takes great liberties with the metre; Kâtyâyana writes in prose, and introduces the artificial contrivances of the later Sûtras. Again, Śaunaka’s index follows the original division of the Rig-veda into Maṇḍalas, Anuvâkas, and Sûktas; Kâtyâyana has adopted the more practical and more modern division into Aṣṭakas, Adhyâyas, and Vargas. The number of hymns is the same in Śaunaka and Kâtyâyana. They both follow the united Sâkhâ of the Śâkalas and Bâshkalas, and bring the number of hymns, exclusive of all Khilas, to 1017. Before this union took place, the Bâshkalas counted eight hymns more than the Śâkalas, i. e. 1025 instead of 1017; and they read some of the hymns in the first Maṇḍala in a different order.¹