The History of Indian Literature c9.9

c9.9

n† † *Bháshika-svara* in Kátyáyana, Śrauta-Sútra, i. 8. 17, is expressly interpreted as *bráhmaṇa-svara*; see *Váj. Saṃh. Specimen*, ii. 196. 197. [*I. St.*, x. 428–429, 437.] Yáska repeatedly opposes *bhásháyám* and *anvadhyáyam* (i.e., ‘in the Veda reading,’ ‘in the text of the hymns’) to each other; similarly, the Prátiśákhya-Sútras employ the words *bháshá* and *bháshya* as opposed to *chhandas* and *veda*, *i.e.*, *saṃhitá* (see above, pp. 57, 103, 144). The way in which the word *bháshya* is used in the Gṛihya Sutra of Śáṅkháyana, namely, in contradistinction to *Sútra*, shows that its meaning had already by this time become essentially modified, and become restricted, precisely as it is in Páṇini, to the extra-Vedic, so to say, profane literature. (The Áśvaláyana-Gṛihya gives instead of *bháshya*, in the corresponding passage, *bhárata-mahábhárata-dharma*.) [This is incorrect; rather, in the passage in question, these words follow the word *bháshya*; see the note on this point at p. 56.] In the same way, in the Nir. xiii. 9, *mantra*, *kalpa*, *bráhmaṇa*, and the *vyávahárikí* (sc. *bháshá*) are opposed to each other (and also *Ṛik*, *Yajus*, *Sáman*, and the *vyávahárikí*).