A Vedic Concordance c4.s4.3

c4.s4.3

2. Unpublished texts included.—The Concordance, on the other hand, gives more than is promised by the title-page, in that it includes a very considerable amount of material not yet published. Of the four books of the Kāṭhaka-Saṃhitā only the first has so far been actually issued by the editor, Professor LEOPOLD VON SCHROEDER of the University of Vienna: it is to me a source of peculiar satisfaction that I am able to give in this Concordance the mantra material from this highly important text entire. I made a special journey to Vienna, in 1902, for the express purpose of copying the material from the three unpublished books, and the editor generously met my wishes by the loan of his manuscripts. From them, by the close and arduous labour of a month, I excerpted the needed parts, and embodied them later in the Concordance. To Professor VON SCHROEDER I owe an especial debt of gratitude. Again, by the kind coöperation of Professor FRIEDRICH KNAUER of the University of Kiew, I have been enabled to present the mantras of the entire Mānava-Çrāuta-Sūtra, an important text in eleven books of which only five as yet are published. Professor HANNS OERTEL, of Yale University, has enriched the Concordance by the not too numerous, and unfortunately very corrupt, mantras contained in the Jāiminīya- or Talavakāra-Brāhmaṇa. Finally I should note that I have incorporated all the material from the so-called ‘dedications’ of the ritual of the horse-sacrifice or açvamedha, and human sacrifice or puruṣamedha. Not all of these are mantras in the stricter sense of the word; but they have been included because they figure in the Saṃhitās and because they sometimes interchange with real mantras of the same or similar import.