The History of Indian Literature c8.97

c8.97

interprets the work under the sole title of the "Kaushítaki-Bráhmaṇa," passages are frequently quoted from a Mahá-Kaushítaki-Bráhmaṇa, so that we have to infer the existence of a still larger work of similar contents,—probably a later handling of the same subject (?). This commentary further connects the Kaushítaki-Bráhmaṇa with the school of the Kauthumas—a school which otherwise belongs only to the Sámaveda: this, however, is a relation which has not as yet been cleared up.—The name Śáṅkháyana-Bráhmaṇa interchanges occasionally with the form Śáṅkhyáyana-Bráhmaṇa, but the former would seem to deserve the preference; its earliest occurrence is probably in the Prátiśákhya-Sútra of the Black Yajus.