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cxiv H. This manuscript, again, belongs to the India Office Library (No. 231; old No. 1137; Catalogue, p. 37). It contains only the first six books, and is handsomely but rather incorrectly written. It has no date, but its accentuation was added in A.D. 1708. Its mode of marking the accent varies: see below.

⌊Manuscripts collated after publication of the text.—The following descriptions also were written out by Whitney, except those of mss. R. and T., which have been supplied by the editor.⌋

The above are all the manuscripts known to have been in Europe in 1853; and upon them alone, accordingly, the printed text was founded. Those that follow have been since collated, and their readings are reported in the notes to the translation.

O. In the possession at present of the Munich Library, but formerly of Prof. M. Haug (to whom they belonged at the time of their collation), are a parcel of Atharvan manuscripts containing a complete saṁhitā-text, with a pada-text of six books, variously divided and bound together, and in part mixed with other texts. The saṁhitā-text is designated as above: it is in five parts: 1. books i.-v., on European paper, 8¼ × 3 in., each book separately paged. The date at the end, çake 1737 (= A.D. 1815) may be that of the original from which this copy is made. It is written in a small but neat and clear hand. 2. Books vi.-xvii., 8¾ × 3¾ in., written in a good sizeable hand, by a Māṁnajī; dated saṁvat 1690 (A.D. 1634); the paper is in parts badly damaged, so as hardly to hold together, and of two leaves in book xii. only fragments remain. It makes great use of the virāma, and of ँ as anusvāra-sign. It numbers the verses only in vargas, making no account of the hymns (sūktas); nor does it notice the prapāṭhaka division. 3. Book xviii., 9¼ × 5 in.; in a large regular hand; dated çake 1735 (A.D. 1813). When collated, it was bound in one volume with pada-ms. of i.-iii. before it, and saṁhitā of xx. after it. 4. Book xix., bound up with i. (saṁhitā i.-v.), and in all respects agreeing with it, save that the (copied?) date is two years later; both are works of the same copyist. 5. Book xx., bound in (as above noted) after 3. The size is 8¾ × 4½ in., and it is dated çake 1735 (A.D. 1813).

Op. This designates the pada-text of the Haug or Munich manuscripts, as above described. They include books i.-iv., xviii., and xx., in three divisions: 1. books i.-iii., bound up (as noted above) with the saṁhitā-text of xviii. and xx. The books are paged separately, but all written by one hand; the date at the end is çake 1733 (A.D. 1811); size 9 × 4¾ in. The hand is large and clear, and the text (corrected by the accentuator) very correct. 2. Book iv.: size 8x4 in.; date çake 1736 (A.D. 1814). 3. Books xviii. and xx., bound with the preceding, and of same size;