The History of Indian Literature c8.242

c8.242

† We have, besides, a commentary by Sáyaṇa, though it is only fragmentary; another is ascribed to a Bálakṛishṇa. [In Burnell's Collection of MSS., see his *Catalogue*, pp. 12–14, is found the greater portion of Bhaṭṭa Kauśika Bháskara Miśra's commentary, under the name *Jnánayajna*; the author is said to have lived 400 years before Sáyaṇa; he quotes amongst others Bhavasvámin, and seems to stand in special connection with the Átreyí school. A *Paiśáchabháshya* on the Black Yajus is also mentioned; see *I. St.*, ix. 176.—An edition of the Taittiríya-Saṃhitá in the *Bibl. Indica*, with Sáyaṇa's complete commentary, was commenced by Roer (1854), continued by Cowell and Ráma Náráyaṇa, and is now in the hands of Maheśachandra Nyáyaratna (the last part, No. 28, 1874, reaches to iv. 3. 11); the complete text, in Roman transcript, has been published by myself in *I. St.*, xi., xii. (1871–72). On the Káṭhaka, see *I. St.*, iii. 451–479.]