The History of Indian Literature c8.218

c8.218

Several other Sútras also treat of the conversion of *ṛichas* into *sámans*, &c. One of these, the *Pañchavidhi-Sútra* (*Páñchavidhya*, *Pañchavidheya*), is only known to me from quotations, according to which, as well as from its name, it treats of the five different *vidhis* (modes) by which this process is effected. Upon a second, the *Pratihára-Sútra*, which is ascribed to Kátyáyana, a commentary called *Daśatayí* was composed by Varadarája, the above-mentioned commentator of Maśaka. It treats of the aforesaid five *vidhis*, with particular regard to the one called *pratihára*. The *Taṇḍálakshaṇa-Sútra* is only known to me by name, as also the *Upagrantha-Sútra*,[^asterisk] both of which, with the two other works just named, are, according to the catalogue, found in the Fort-William collection of MSS. By the anonymous transcriber of the Berlin MS. of the Maśaka-Sútra, who is of course a very weak authority, ten Śrauta-Sútras for the Sámaveda are enumerated at the close of the MS., viz., besides Láṭyáyana, Anupada, Nidána, Kalpa, Taṇḍálakshaṇa, Pañchavidheya, and the Upagranthas, also the *Kalpánupada*, *Anustotra*, and the *Kshudras*. What is to be understood by the three last names must for the present remain undecided.⁸⁵