The History of Indian Literature c8.202

c8.202

The third Sáma-Sútra, that of *Dráhyáyaṇa*, differs but slightly from the Láṭyáyana-Sútra. It belongs to the school of the Ráṇáyaníyas. We meet with the name of these latter in the Ráṇáyaníputra of Láṭyáyana; his family is descended from Vasishṭha, for which reason this Sutra is also directly called *Vásishṭha-Sútra*. For the name Dráhyáyaṇa nothing analogous can be adduced.⁷⁸ The difference between this Sútra and that of Láṭyáyana is mainly confined to the different distribution of the matter, which is on the whole identical, and even expressed in the same words. I have not yet met with a complete codex of the whole work, but only with its beginning and its end, in two different commentaries, the date of which it is not yet possible to determine—the beginning, namely, in Maghasvámin's commentary, remodelled by Rudraskanda; the end in the excellent commentary of Dhanvin.