The History of Indian Literature c8.144

c8.144

⁵² Edited by W. Pertsch (Berlin, 1854); this tract treats of the *kramapáṭha*, an extended form of the *padapáṭha*, which at the same time gives the text in the saṃhitá form, namely, each word twice, first joined with the preceding, and then with the following word (thus: *ab, bc, cd, de*...). There are also other still more complicated modes of reciting the Veda, as to which cf. Thibaut in his edition of the Jaṭápaṭala (1870), p. 36, ff. The next step, called *jaṭá*, exhibits the text in the following manner: *ab ba ab, bc cb bc*, and MSS. of this kind have actually been preserved, *e.g.*, in the case of the Vájas. Saṃh. The following step, called *ghana*, is said to be still in use; cf. Bhaṇḍarkar, *Indian Antiquary*, iii. 133; Haug, *Ueber das Wesen des vedischen Accents*, p. 58; it runs: *ab ba abc cba abc, bc cb bc bcd dcb bcd*.