The History of Indian Literature c9.27

c9.27

²⁰⁰ Vaiśampáyana appears elsewhere frequently, but always in special relation to the transmission of the Yajur-Veda. By Páṇini, it is true (iv. 3. 104), he is simply cited generally as a Vedic teacher, but the Mahábháshya, commenting on this passage, describes him as the teacher of Kaṭha and Kalápin. In the Calcutta Scholium, again, we find further particulars (from what source? cf. Táránátha on *Siddh. Kaum.*, i. 590), according to which (see *I. St.*, xiii. 440) nine Vedic schools, and among them two belonging to the Sáma-Veda, trace their origin to him. In the Ṛig-Gṛihya he is evidently regarded (see above, pp. 57, 58), after the manner of the Vishṇu-Puráṇa, as the special representative of the Yajur-Veda; and so he appears in the Anukr. of the Átreyí school, at the head of its list of teachers, specially as the preceptor of Yáska Paiṅgi.