The History of Indian Literature c8.132.2

c8.132.2

For not only are the Ṛishis of the Ṛik-Saṃhitá cited in their extant order, but all those names are likewise mentioned which we encounter as particularly significant in the formation of the different schools of the Ṛik, as well as in connection with its Bráhmaṇas and Sútras; for example, Váshkala, Śákalya, Máṇḍúkeya, Aitareya, Paiṅgya, Kaushítaka, Śaunaka, Áśvaláyana, and Śáṅkháyana themselves, &c. Joined to these, we find other names with which we are not yet otherwise acquainted, as also the names of three female sages, one of whom, Gárgí Váchaknaví, meets us repeatedly in the Vṛihad-Áraṇyaka of the White Yajus, as residing at the court of Janaka. The second⁴⁵ is unknown; but the name of the third, Sulabhá Maitreyí, is both connected with this very Janaka in the legends of the Mahá-Bhárata,∗ and also points us to the *Saulabháni Bráhmaṇáni*, quoted by the scholiast on Páṇini, iv. 3. 105, probably on the authority of the Mahábháshya,⁴⁶ as an instance of the 'modern' Bráhmaṇas implied by this rule. Immediately after the Ṛishis of the Ṛik-Saṃhitá, we find mention of other names and works which have not yet been met with in any other part of Vedic literature. In the Śáṅkháyana-Gṛihya we have these: *Sumantu-Jaimini-Vaiśampáyana-Paila-sútra-bháshya* [-*Gárgya-Babhru*] . . .;