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

Keś. The prayogasāra of Keśavasvāmin. Sāy. The commentary of Sāyaṇa on the darśapūrṇamāsa. Somapray. The Baudhāyanasomaprayoga by Rudradatta. (I.O. 1262. 3. A). Mādh. The 119 notations from Baudhāyana in Mādhava's com- mentary on the Taittirīya Saṃhitā. Mantramālā. The collection of Mantras used at the agniṣṭoma, I. O No. 3009 (agniṣṭomamantramālā). Śrautapadārtha. The śrautapadārthanirvacana by Nāgeśvara- Shāstrī Somaṇa, printed at Benares Saṃvat 1944. Although the number of complete MSS. used for this edition is rather small, this circumstance is counterbalanced to a certain degree by the fact, that all the MSS., which contain the text of this first volume, are wholly independent of each other. The independence of the various textual traditions contained in them shows itself particularly in the numbering of the khaṇḍas and even partly of the praśnas, which in none of the MSS. is the same throughout. This fact increases not a little the difficulty of giving the right numbering. The division in adhyāyas, on the contrary, may be given with absolute security, at the hand of the Bhavasvā- min Vivaraṇa. The discrepancy of the khaṇḍa numbering might perhaps be explained from the fact that this division is obviously of later times. Bhavasvāmin knows no division in khaṇḍas; at least he does not mention it, just as Rudradatta in his commentary on Āpastamba does not reckon with kaṇḍikās, but only with paṭalas. One of the greatest difficulties, if not the greatest of all, that presents itself to the Editor of the Baudhāyana Kalpasūtra, is the numbering and division of the praśnas. Even at the time of Bhavasvāmin there existed more than one system of counting and dividing the praśnas containing the agniṣṭoma ritual. Bhavasvāmin mentions a threefold numbering. Firstly he divides the agniṣṭoma portion into five praśnas, the first of which contains 10 adhyāyas (comprising the agniṣṭoma up to the prātaranuvāka and closing with the words राजानं गोपायन्ति ); the second praśna comprises the prātaḥsavana (5 adhyāyas); the third comprises the mādhyandina savana (2 adhyāyas); the fourth comprises the tṛtīya savana (also 2 adhy.); the fifth comprises the yajñapuccha (also 2 adhyāyas). This number of five somapraśnas is also found in the Haug MS. Secondly, Bhavasvāmin knows a continuous numbering, according to which the whole agniṣṭoma consists of 21 adhyāyas. This system of numbering is also met with in the Haug MS., which gives no division in adhyāyas, but only in khaṇḍas, the numbers of the khaṇḍas being omitted towards the end. The third system of division known to Bhavasvāmin comprises two parts: (1) the first praśna containing 10 adhyāyas; and (2) a praśna containing 11 adhyāyas.