बौधायन श्रौतसूत्रम् (कृष्ण यजुर्वेद तैत्तिरीय शाखा - सम्पूर्ण प्रश्न एवं श्रौत-याग कल्प सटीक)

PREFACE. For this editio princeps of the Baudhāyana Śrauta Sūtra the following MSS. have been used :

1. B. A modern copy in Devanāgarī writing made in 1868 by Vyaṅkājī Nārāyaṇa, containing, in eight parts, an almost complete text of our Sūtra. Copied for the Government of Bombay and registered as Class I. B. 5 (Elphinstone College), cp. the list published by Georg Bühler in the Journal of the German Oriental Society, Vol. XLII, p. 552. The MS. is carefully written on blue paper, 13 lines on a page, and, if I am not mistaken, in some places corrected and completed by the hand of Bühler. The text is on the whole correct, especially in the first nine praśnas. The later praśnas are also very carefully written, but copied from an original that must have been corrupted. The original of the later praśnas is probably a Grantha MS., as is shown by the nature of the clerical errors. The contents of this MS. are not those that have been given by Bühler in the Journal of the German Or. Soc., but : (a) On 76 leaves the darśapūrṇamāsa, ādhāna, the daśādhyāyika, paśubandha, cāturmāsya and pravargya, together 2,500 granthas. (b) On 112 leaves the agniṣṭoma, cayaua, vājapeya, rājasūya and iṣṭikalpa, together 4,000 granthas.¹ (c) On 22 leaves the aupānuvākya, 800 granthas. (d) On 16 leaves the aśvamedha, 500 granthas. (e) The uttarā tatiḥ, on 61 leaves, together 3,000 granthas. (f) On 22 leaves the last two dvaidha praśnas, 675 granthas. (g) The prāyaścittasūtra on 21 leaves, containing 700 gran- thas. (h) On 15 leaves part of a bhāṣya (by Sāyaṇa?) on the paśu- bandha; 500 granthas. From this analysis it will be seen that this MS. is of the greatest value for the construction of the text of our Sūtra, as it enables us, with the aid of the other MSS., to reconstruct nearly the whole Sūtra.
2. Be. A collection of texts belonging to the Government Sanskrit College, at Benares, No 115 (cp. Sūcīpattram, page 70). It consists of 18 parts, written by different hands on paper in Devanāgarī. (a) darśapūrṇamāsa, on 26 leaves, Śake 1677. (b) upavyāharaṇādhāne punarādhānādi hautrāntaṁ ca: the second and third praśnas, on 30 leaves; modern, well written.

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¹ The part containing the vājapeya, rājasūya and iṣṭikalpa is called in this MS. in margiu : एकपासून•