The History of Indian Literature c8.270

c8.270

¹⁰⁸ On the Ápastamba-Śrauta-Sútra and the commentaries belonging to it, by Dhúrtasv., Kapardisvámin, Rudradatta, Gurudevasvámin, Karavindasvámin, Tálav., Ahobalasúri (Aḍabíla in Bühler, *l. c.*, p. 150, who also mentions a Nṛisiṅha, p. 152), and others, see Burnell in his *Catalogue*, pp. 18–24, and in the *Indian Antiquary*, i. 5, 6. According to this the work consists of thirty *praśnas*; the first twenty-three treat of the sacrificial rites in essentially the same order (from *darśapúrṇamásau* to *sattráyaṇam*) as in Hiraṇyakeśi, whose Sútra generally is almost identical with that of Ápastamba; see Bühler's preface to the Áp. Dharma-Sútra, p. 6; the 24th *praśna* contains the general rules, *paribhāshás*, edited by M. Müller in *Z. D. M. G.*, ix. (1855), a *pravarakhanda* and a *hautraka*; *praśnas* 25–27 contain the Gṛihya-Sútra; *praśnas* 28, 29, the Dharma-Sútra, edited by Bühler (1868); and finally, *praśna* 30, the Śulva-Sútra (*śulva*, ‘measuring cord’).