The History of Indian Literature c8.366

c8.366

¹⁴¹ On this subject compare Goldstücker's detailed discussion in his *Páṇini*, p. 132–140, and my special rejoinder, *I. St.*, v. 65–74, xiii. 443, 444, *I. Str.*, ii. 214. According to these expositions, the author of the *várttikas* must, on the one hand, have considered the *Yájnavalkáni Bráhmaṇáni* as originally promulgated (*prokta*) by Yájnavalkya; but, on the other hand, he must also have looked upon the recension then extant as contemporaneous with Páṇini. Although he here counts Yájnavalkya among the *puráṇas*, ‘ancients,’—and this interpretation is required by the wording of the *várttika*,—yet the *Káśiká*, on the contrary, expressly declares him to be “*not chirakála*.” [^asterisk]: In the Yájnavalkíyakáṇḍa Uddálaka Áruṇi is, like the other Brahmans, silenced by Yájnavalkya, no mention being made of his being the preceptor of the latter.