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Rh see SPP's notes on pages 410 and 460 and especially 543, and W's note on hymn 68, and observe, for example, the wild resolution of vármā sīvyadhvám as várma: asi: vi॰adhvám at 58. 4. The corruptness of the text made Whitney doubt (in 1862: see his Prāt., p. 581) the existence of a pada-pāṭha.—Second, book xix. is entirely ignored by the Pañcapaṭalikā or Old Anukr., as is stated also by SPP. in his Critical Notice, vol. i., p. 24.—Third, "to the apprehension of the Prātiçākhya the Atharva-Veda comprehended only the first eighteen books of the present collection": so Whitney, Prāt., p. 581; cf. his Index of passages referred to by the AV. Prāt., p. 600 c, and especially his notes to Prāt. ii. 67 c and ii. 22.⌋

⌊'''Relation of book xix. to Kāuçika.'''—The sūtra-citations do not imply recognition of the text of book xix. as an integral part of the saṁhitā.—Bloomfield has made a critical separation of the more original vidhāna-matter from the gṛhya-matter in the text of Kāuçika, and styles the former "Atharva-sūtra" or "Vidhāna-sūtra": see his Introd. to Kāuç., p. xxviii., and his essay in Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, 1902, p. 489. His Vidhāna-sūtra comprehends the text of Kāuç. from the beginning of kaṇḍikā 7 to the end of kaṇḍikā 52, excepting perhaps most of the matter (42. 19 to 43. 20) just preceding the vaçāçamana, and excepting the vaçāçamana itself (43. 21 to 45. 19): that is, his Vidhāna-sūtra runs from 7. 1 to 42. 18 and from 46. 1 to 52. 21.*—Now it is in the first place to be noted that no verse whatever is cited in the text of the "Vidhāna-sūtra" (whether by pratīka or by technical designation or in sakalapāṭha) which is also to be found in book xix., with the single exception of prā́ṇa prāṇám.† In the second place, disregarding the verses cited by technical designation (the "jivās-verses": see below) and those which are cited in full and by pratīka besides (33. 3; 52. 5; 72. 1: see below), it appears that there are in the entire text of Kāuçika only six pratīkas which might seem at first blush to imply the recognition of book xix. as part of the Atharvan text by Kāuçika. The six pratīkas cover some eleven verses. Including with them a seventh pratīka, devásya tvā, I give them in tabular form:

The place of citation in Kāuçika is given at the left; the place of occurrence in AV. is given in parentheses; and the texts, other than AV., in which the mantras occur, are noted at the right in square brackets.⌋ *⌊This delimitation of the Vidhāna-sūtra differs slightly from Bloomfield's as given in the places just cited: it has been revised with the help of a friendly note from him.⌋ †⌊The verse prā́ṇa prāṇám (xix. 44. 4) is cited at 47. 16, which is a part of Bloomfield's "Vidhāna-sūtra," and seems to have been overlooked by him at p. xxxi.⌋ ‡⌊Keçava (on 6. 37) and Darila (on 45. 17) understand the whole AV. hymn of five verses as intended by kā́mas tád.⌋

⌊Citations by pratīka.—The three phrases, (1) devásya tvā savitúḥ prasavé and (2) açvínor bāhúbhyām and (3) pūṣṇó hástābhyām, are unvaried as between the AV. text and the citations by Kāuç. (in full at 2. 1 and 2. 21 and 137. 18: the citation at 91. 3 is