The History of Indian Literature c8.279

c8.279

Lastly, the *Prátisákhya-Sútra* has still to be mentioned as a Sútra of the Black Yajus. The only manuscript with which I am acquainted unfortunately only begins at the fourth section of the first of the two *praśnas*. This work is of special significance from the number of very peculiar names of teachers \* mentioned in it: as Átreya, Kauṇḍinya (once by the title of Sthavira), and Bháradvája, whom we know already; also Válmíki, a name which in this connection is especially surprising; and further Ágniveśya, Ágniveśyáyana, Paushkarasádi, and others. The two last names, as well as that of Kauṇḍinya,† are mentioned in Buddhist writings as the names either of pupils or of contemporaries of Buddha, and Paushkarasádi is also cited in the *várttikas* to Páṇini by Kátyáyana, their author. Again, the allusion occurring here for the first time to the Mímáṅsakas and Taittiríyakas deserves to be remarked;