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altogether ten books of Śaunaka, written for the preservation of the Rig-veda; 1. The index of the Rishis; 2. The index of the Metres; 3. The index of the Deities; 4. The index of the Anuvâkas; 5. The index of the Sûktas; 6. The Vidhâna (employment) of the Rich-verses; 7. The employment of the Pâdas¹; 8. The Bârhaddaivata; 9. The Prâtiśâkhya² of the Śaunakas; 10. His Smârta work on matters of law.³ Âśvalâyana having learnt all these ten Sûtras, and knowing also the Gotras, (genealogies⁴), became versed in all the sacrifices by the favour of Śaunaka. The sage Kâtyâyana had thirteen books before him: ten of Śaunaka and three of his pupil Âśvalâyana.⁵ The latter consisted of the Sûtras in twelve chapters, (Śrauta-sûtra), the Gṛihya-sûtras in four chapters, and the fourth Āraṇyaka (of the Aitareyāraṇyaka) by Āśvalāyana. The sage Kātyāyana, having mastered the thirteen¹ books of Śaunaka and of his pupil, composed several works himself; the Sûtras of the Vājins², the Upagrantha³ of the Sāma-veda, the Ślokas⁴ of the Smṛiti (the Karmapradīpa), the Brahma-Kārikās of the Atharvans⁵, and the Mahāvārttika⁶, which was like a boat on the great ocean of Pāṇini’s Grammar. The rules promulgated by him were explained by the Reverend Patañjali⁷, the teacher of the Yoga-philosophy, himself the author of the Yoga-śāstra and the Nidāna, a man highly pleased by the great commentary, the work of the descendant of Śantanu. Now it was Kātyāyana, the great sage, endowed with these numerous excellencies, who composed, by great exertion, this Sarvānukramaṇī. And because it gives the substance of all the works composed by Śaunaka and his pupils, therefore the chief among the Bahvṛichas have called it the General Index.”