The History of Indian Literature c8.451

c8.451

¹⁶⁷ Of this Prátiśákhya also Whitney has given us an excellent edition in *Journal Am. Or. Soc.*, vii. (1862), x. 156, ff. (1872, additions). See also my remarks in *I. St.*, iv. 79–82. According to Whitney, this work takes no notice of the two last books of the existing Ath. text, which it otherwise follows closely; since therefore the Atharva-Saṃhitá in Patamjali's time already comprised twenty books, we might from this directly infer the priority of the Śaun. chat.; unless Pat