The History of Indian Literature c8.56

c8.56

²⁰ This is a mistake. They know the word *not only* in the above, but also in a technical sense, viz., as a designation of one of the six parts of the *śastra* ('canon'), more especially of the main substance of it; when thus applied, *súkta* appears in a collective meaning, comprising several *súktas*. Cf. Śáṅkh. Bráhm., xiv. 1.