The History of Indian Literature c8.446

c8.446

*thaka*. In one of the Pariśishtas the work is stated to have originally contained 100 *prapáṭhakas*. The contents are entirely unknown to me. According to Colebrooke's remarks on the subject, Atharvan is here represented as a Prajápati who is appointed by Brahman as a Demiurge; and this is, in fact, the position which he occupies in the Pariśishtas and some of the Upanishads. The division of the year into twelve (or thirteen) months consisting of 360 days, and of each day into thirty *muhúrtas*, which Colebrooke points out as remarkable, equally appears in the Bráhmaṇas of the Yajus, &c.¹⁶⁶