The History of Indian Literature c8.160

c8.160

∗ Benfey [*Einleitung*, p. xix.] erroneously states the number as 1472, which I copied from him, *I. St.*, i. 29, 30. The above number is borrowed from a paper by Whitney, which will probably find a place in the *Indische Studien*. The total number of the *ṛichas* contained in the Sáma-Saṃhitá is 1810 (585 in the first, 1225 in the second part), from which, however, 261 are to be deducted as mere repetitions, inasmuch as 249 of those occurring in the first part are repeated in the second, three of them twice, while nine of the *ṛichas* which occur in the second part only, appear twice. [See on this Whitney's detailed table at the end of his *Tabellarische Darstellung der gegenseitigen Verhältnisse der Saṃhitás des Ṛik, Sáman, Weissen Yajus, und Atharvan, I. St.*, ii. 321, ff., 363 (1853)].