The History of Indian Literature c8.162

c8.162

⁶⁰ The seventh *prapáṭhaka*, which is peculiar to it, has since been discovered. It bears the title Áraṇyaka-Saṁhitá, and has been edited by Siegfried Goldschmidt in *Monatsberichte der Berl. Acad.* 1868, pp. 228–248. The editor points out that the Áraṇya-gána is based upon the *árchika* of the Naigeya text (*l. c.*, p. 238), and that MSS. have probably been preserved of its uttarárchika also (p. 241). — A London MS. of Bharatasvámin's Sámavedavivaraṇa specially refers to the Áraṇyaka-Saṁhitá, see Burnell, *Catalogue of Vedic MSS.* (1870), p. 39.—Of the Áraṇyaka-gána as well as of the Grámageya-gána we find, *ibid.*, p. 49, a text in the Jaimini-Śákhá also. According to Rájendra Lála Mitra (Preface to Translation of Chhánd. Up., p. 4), ‘the Kauthuma (-Śákhá) is current in Guzerat, the Jaiminíya in Karnáṭaka, and the Ráṇáyaníya in Maháráshṭra.’