The History of Indian Literature c8.417

c8.417

The *Anukramaṇí* of Kátyáyana contains, in the first place, in the first four *adhyáyas* (down to iv. 9), an index of the authors, deities, and metres of the several *śukláni yajúṅshi* "White Yajus-formulas" contained in the "*Mádhyamdiníye Vájasaneyake Yajurvedámnáye sarve* [?] *sakhile saśukriye*," which the saint Yájnavalkya received from Vivasvant, the sun-god. For their *viniyoga*, or liturgical use, we are referred to the Kalpakára. As regards the names of authors here mentioned, there is much to be remarked. The authors given for the *ṛichas* usually agree with those assigned to the same verses in the Ṛig-anukramaṇí; there are, however, many exceptions to this. Very often the particular name appears (as is also the case in the Ṛig-anukramaṇí) to be borrowed from some word occurring in the verse. In the case where a passage is repeated elsewhere, as very often happens, it is frequently assigned to an author different from the one to whom it had previously been attributed. Many of the Ṛishis here mentioned do not occur among those of the Ṛik, and belong to a later stage than these; among them are several even of the teachers mentioned in the Śatapatha-Bráhmaṇa. The closing part of the fourth *adhyáya*[^asterisk] contains the dedication of the verses to be recited at particular ceremonies to their respective Ṛishis, deities, and metres, together with other similar mystical distributions. Lastly, the fifth *adhyáya* gives a short analysis of the metres which occur. In the excellent but unfortunately not altogether complete Paddhati of Śríhala to this Anukramaṇí we find the liturgical use of each individual verse also given in detail.