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

PREFACE. xiii the sentences, by placing a little stroke above the line, without being sure, however, to have given always the right interpunc- tion. The first volume of this edition of Baudhāyana is intended to comprise :—

1. The darśapūrṇamāsa.
2. The ādhāna.
3. The daśādhyāyika praśna.
4. The paśubandha.
5. The cāturmāsyas.
6. The agniṣṭoma, with pravargya and avāntaradīkṣā. The second volume will, if the materials prove sufficient, contain the later praśnas from the cayana on, including the aśvamedha. The materials for the cayana, vājapeya, and rājasūya are sufficient. A third volume would contain the so-called uttarā tatiḥ, per- haps the most interesting part of the whole Sūtra. I hope to be able to obtain enough MSS. to publish this text. A fourth volume would comprehend the dvaidha, karmānta, and prāyaścitta praśnas. In course of time I hope also to be able to publish the gṛhya- sūtra, for which I have collected already sufficient materials. Of the pravara khaṇḍa four copies are in my possession. The very useful and instructing Vivaraṇa of Bhavasvāmin I also hope to edit, at the advice of Professor Hillebrandt of Breslau not, as I at first intended, in extracts, but the whole of it, as far as it is extant or accessible. Whether the promises here given will be fulfilled, depends chiefly on the materials I can have access to. Therefore, if there are European or Indian Scholars and Paṇḍits, who might know of more MSS. containing text and commentary than those used by me, they will lay not only me, but also science under deep obligation by communicating to me what they know of them. Finally, I have to express my thanks to the Trustees of the Libraries of the India Office and at Munich, who lent or caused Manuscripts to be lent to me, to Dr. Hultzsch, Government Epigra- phist at Bangalore, who kindly provided me with copies of some parts of the work, to Mr. Albin Venis, Principal of the Govern- ment Sanskrit College at Benares, who kindly permitted me the use of the most valuable Benares MSS., to Mr. Aug. Barth, who collated the MS. P, and above all to Professor Hillebrandt, who in the most generous way permitted me the use of the copies originally procured for him by Dr. Hultzsch and Dr. Stein. UTRECHT (HOLLAND), BUYS BALLOTSTR. 17; September, 1903.