The History of Indian Literature c8.137

c8.137

⁴⁸ This interpretation becomes imperative after the rectification of the text (see the previous note), according to which no longer four, but five names of works are in question. tinction to one another, just as in the Prátiśákhya of the Black Yajus (ii. 12) we find *chhandas* and *bháshá*, and in Yáska *anvadhyáya* and *bháshá*. We must, therefore, understand by it ‘works in *bháshá*,’ though the meaning of the word is here more developed than in the works just mentioned, and approaches the sense in which Páṇini uses it. I shall return to the subject further on. \* What is meant in the latter [and cf. note 47 in the *Áśv. Gṛih.* too] by the word *bháshya*, appears from the Prátiśákhya of the White Yajus, where (i. 1. 19, 20) *vedeshu* and *bháshyeshu* are found in contradis-