The History of Indian Literature c8.195

c8.195

The second Śrauta-Sūtra is that of *Lāṭyāyana*, which belongs to the school of the Kauthumas. This name appears to me to point to Lāṭa, the Λαρική of Ptolemy,⁷⁵ to a country therefore lying quite in the west, directly south of Surāshṭra (Συραστρηνή). This would agree perfectly with the conjecture above stated, that the Pañchaviṅśa-Brāhmaṇa belongs more to the west of India; and is borne out by the data contained in the body of the Sūtra itself, as we shall see presently.