The History of Indian Literature c8.35

c8.35

¹⁴ This indeed is the real purpose of the Prátiśákhyas, namely, to show how the continuous Saṃhitá text is to be reconstructed out of the Pada text, in which the individual words of the text are given separately in their original form, unaffected by *saṃdhi*, *i.e.*, the influence of the words which immediately precede and follow. Whatever else, over and above this, is found in the Prátiśákhyas is merely accessory matter. See Whitney in *Journal Am. Or. Soc.*, iv. 259 (1853).