The History of Indian Literature c8.57

c8.57

²¹ I am at present unable to corroborate this statement in detail. I can only show, from Śaunaka's Anuvákánukramaṇí, that the recension of the Váshkalas had eight hymns more than that of the Śákalas, but not that these eight hymns formed part of the eighth *maṇḍala*. When I wrote the above I was probably thinking of the Válakhilyas, whose number is given by Sáyaṇa, in his commentary on the Ait. Br., as eight (cf. Roth, *Zur Litt. und Gesch. des Weda*, p. 35; Haug on Ait. Br., 6. 24, p. 416), whereas the editions of Müller and Aufrecht have eleven. But as to whether these eight or eleven Válakhilyas belong specially to the Váshkalas, I cannot at present produce any direct evidence. On other differences of the Váshkala school, &c., see Adalb. Kuhn, in *I. St.*, i. 108, ff.