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

iv PREFACE. fact, at the close of this praśna, all the pratīkas of the adhyāyas and khaṇḍikās, including those of the chapters on samāvartana. How it occurred to the diasceuasts of the śrautasūtra to insert the samāvartana among the subjects treated in the śrautasūtra, I am, however, at a loss to explain. So this Mackenzie MS. was of the greatest help in constituting the text of Vol ii. The tradition of the cayana, vājapeya and rājasūya chapters is in this MS. inferior to that of the following chapters. To these, however, it is of the greatest value : entire passages, omitted by all the other MSS., are found here, and in many a passage it is easy to prove that only the reading found in M. (Mackenzie) is right, over against the oftentimes unanimous reading of all the other MSS. As no complete copy of the Vivaraṇa seems to be available, we are thrown upon our own resources to understand the meaning of this text. Of some use are, of course, the cognate texts of Āpastamba and Hiraṇyakeśin, but, as these are much more real sūtras than the text of Baudhāyana, and conse- quently, on the whole, much shorter, the help procured from these texts is rather inefficient. In passages, where new words or unknown expressions occur, I have, therefore, as a rule, adhered to the reading of M. The corruption of the other MSS. is so great, that it is not worth while mentioning all their various readings. So, e.g., in the description of the vrātyastomas : here the text of all the MSS., with the exception of M., is one hopeless confusion. It is highly to be regretted, that this Mackenzie MS. is not wholly complete : some final leaves are wanting ; conse- quently the text of the important last chapters of the second uttarātatīḥpraśna had to be edited as well as possible after the corrupt MSS. This is all the more to be regretted as they contain the legends of Purūravas and Uśanas. After the above remarks, the reader and student of the second volume of Baudhāyana will be indulgent to the editor, who thought it better to give a text, however imperfect, rather than postpone its publication ad calendas graecas, as, after years of inquiry, no more help seemed to be forthcoming. After these preliminary remarks, I shall now give a list of the MSS. used in editing Vol. ii.

1. M, being No. xxviii. (new number : 92) of the Mackenzie Collection at the India Office, see Wilson, a descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS. collected by Lt.-Col. Mackenzie, Vol. i., p. 6 ; old palmleaf MS. in Nandināgarī characters, 44 c.m. long, 2½ large, well-written but slightly injured ; the pagination is continuous. It contains the following parts :— (a) karmāntasūtra, one leaf numbered 2 and containing Karm. i., kh. 3 from : ° ta āvāpo bhavati taṃtram tu unto jagatīti, close of kh. 5 ; then on 20 leaves numbered 21-41, the rest of the Kar- mānta, beginning praśna ii., kh. 27, from : ° bṛhaspatibhyāṃ tvā juṣṭam unto the end of the Karmānta. (b) śulbasūtra foll. 42-50 a.