The History of Indian Literature c8.220

c8.220

The *Grihya-Sútra* of the Sámaveda belongs to *Gobhila*, the same to whom we also found a Śrauta-Sútra and the Pushpa-Sútra ascribed.⁸⁶ His name has a very unvedic ring, and nothing in any way coresponding to it appears in the rest of Vedic literature.⁸⁷ In what relation this work, drawn up in four *prapáṭhakas*, stands to the Grihya-Sútras of the remaining Vedas has not yet been investigated.⁸⁸ A supplement (*pariśishṭa*) to it is the *Karmapradípa* of Kátyáyana. In its introductory words it expressly acknowledges itself to be such a supplement to Gobhila; but it has also been regarded both as a second Grihya-Sútra and as a Smṛiti-Śástra. According to the statement of Áśárka, the commentator of this Karmapradípa, the Grihya-Sutra of Gobhila is authoritative for both the schools of the Sámaveda, the Kauthumas as well as the Ráṇáyaníyas.∗—Is the *Khádira-Gṛihya*, which is now and then mentioned, also to be classed with the Sámaveda?⁸⁹