The History of Indian Literature c8.236

c8.236

⁹⁰ It is not the number of syllables, but the number of words, that constitutes the norm; fifty words, as a rule, form a *kaṇḍiká*; see *I. St.*, xi. 13, xii. 90, xiii. 97–99.—Instead of *ashṭaka*, we find also the more correct name *káṇḍa*, and instead of *praśna*, which is peculiar to the Taittiríya texts, the generally employed term, *prapáṭhaka*; see *I. St.*, xi. 13, 124.—The Taitt. Bráhm. and the Taitt. Ár., are also subdivided into *kaṇḍikás*, and these again into very small sections; but the principle of these divisions has not yet been clearly ascertained.