The History of Indian Literature c8.199

c8.199

The first seven prapáṭhakas of the Láṭyáyana-Sútra comprise the rules common to all Soma sacrifices; the eighth and part of the ninth book treat, on the contrary, of the separate *ekáhas*; the remainder of the ninth book, of the *ahínas*; and the tenth, of the *sattras*. We have an excellent commentary on it by Agnisvámin,⁷⁶ who belongs probably to the same period as the other commentators whose names terminate in *svámin*, as Bhavasvámin, Bharatasvámin, Dhúrtasvámin, Harisvámin, Khadirasvámin, Meghasvámin, Skandasvámin, Kshírasvámin, &c.; their time, however, is as yet undetermined.⁷⁷