The History of Indian Literature c8.233

c8.233

dagger † As is likewise the case with the other Vedas. [^double-dagger]: ‡ Besides the text, we have also a Ṛishyanukramaṇí for it. [^section]: § In later writings several Kaṭhas are distinguished, the Kaṭhas, the Práchya-Kaṭhas, and the Kapishṭhala-Kaṭhas; the epithet of these last is found in Páṇini (viii. 3. 91), and Megasthenes mentions the Καμβίσθολοι as a people in the Panjáb—In the Fort-William Catalogue a Kapishṭhala-Saṃhitá is mentioned [see *I. St.*, xiii. 375, 439.—At the time of the Mahábháshya the position of the Kaṭhas must have been one of great consideration, since they—and their text, the Káṭhaka—are repeatedly mentioned; see *I. St.*, xiii. 437, ff. The founder of their school, Kaṭha, appears in the Mahábháshya as Vaiśampáyana's pupil, and the Kaṭhas themselves appear in close connection with the Kálápas and Kauthumas, both schools of the Sáman. In the Rámáyaṇa, too, the Kaṭha-Kálápas are mentioned as being much esteemed in Ayodhyá (ii. 32. 18, Schlegel). Haradatta's statement, "*Bahvṛichánám apy asti Kaṭhaśákhá*" (Bhaṭṭoji's Siddh. Kaum. ed. Táránátha (1865), vol. ii. p. 524, on Páṇ., vii. 4. 38), probably rests upon some misunderstanding,; see *I. St.*, xiii. 438.]