The History of Indian Literature c10.19

c10.19

Pp. 99–101. According to the catalogue (1876) of M. Haug's collection of MSS., there are now in the Royal Library at Munich, with which this collection was incorporated in the spring of 1877, not only two MSS. of the Maitráyaṇí Saṃhitá, but also several more or less complete, but, unfortunately, in great part modern, copies of Ápastamba, Mánava, Bháradvája, Baudháyana, Vaikhánasa, Hiraṇyakeśin.—The description (in notes 108, 109) of the Dharma-Sútras as part of the Śrauta-Sútras is not quite correct; rather both are portions, possessing an equal title, of a collective Sútra-whole, to which in each case there also belonged a Gṛihya- and a Śulva-Sútra, and which we might perhaps designate by the name of Kalpa-Sútra.—[The North-Western origin of the Kaṭha school (cf. *Κάθαια*, *I. St.*, xiii. 439) is also, in a certain measure, attested by the fact that, according to Bühler's letter from Kashmír (dated September 1875, published in *I. St.*, xiv. 402 ff.) on the results of his search for MSS. in that province, this school is still in the present day the prevailing one in Kashmír. The Brahmans there call themselves, it is true, *chaturvedí*, but they follow the rules of the Káṭhaka-Gṛihya-Sútra of Laugákshi. Besides portions of all the Vedas, the Bhaṭṭas learn by heart the Paddhati of Devapála, the commentary and *prayoga* to the Káṭhaka-Gṛihya. 'Of these Gṛihyas I have acquired several MSS., among them an old one on *bhúrja*. To the Káṭhaka-Sútra are attached a Pravarádhyáya, an Ársha, the Cháráyaṇíyá Śikshá, and several other Pariśishṭas.'—*Additional note in second German edition.*] According to Bühler, *Z. D. M. G.*, xxii. 327, the Dharma-Sútra of the Káṭhaka school is identical with the Vishṇu-Smṛiti. On this, and on the Káṭhaka school in Kashmír generally, see now Bühler, Report of Journey, *l. c.*, pp. 20, 36, 37.