The History of Indian Literature c8.449

c8.449

In the first place, I have to mention the *Śaunakíyá chatur-adhyáyiká*,166b a kind of Prátiśákhya for the Atharva-Saṃhitá, in four *adhyáyas*, which might possibly go back to the author of the Ṛik-Prátiśákhya, who is also mentioned in the Prátiśákhya of the White Yajus. The Śaunakas are named in the Charaṇavyúha as a school of the Atharvan, and members of this school are repeatedly mentioned in the Upanishads. The work bears here and there a more generally grammatical character than is the case with the remaining Prátiśákhyas. Śákaṭáyana and other grammatical teachers are mentioned. In the Berlin MS.—the only one as yet known—each rule is followed by its commentary.¹⁶⁷