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 Traditional Origin of Katantra 83 water on me." Thereupon the ignorant king offered her some (gs) sweets. Subsequently, discovering his error and being much ashamed of his ignorance of Sanskrit, he requested his Pandit named Sarravarman to devise & speedy method of learning grammar. The Pandit in his difficulty bescugat God Siva who ordured his son Kärtti- keya or Kumāra to accide to his wishes. Accordingly, Kumara revealed the stras of the Kaumära grammar. As the God's vehicle, the bird Kalapin (peacock), was the in- strument of communication, the sutras also obtained their other name. This tradition-like most othere of its kind has probably a germ of truth. The date of the rise of this school as given by the tradition is not at all incon- sistent with other ascertained facts. Thus Durgasimha the earliest known commentator on this grammar cannot as we shall presently see, be later than 800 A. D., and when we consider that he may not have been the first commentator on the Kätantra, and that, at any rate, the Sutrapātha known to him cannot be necessarily identical with that which was original, seeing that considerable differences are observable between his Satrapatha and that current, for instance, in Kasmir since 1100 A. D.,- we may for the present accept the first century after Christ as the century which witnessed the rise of this grammar. 65. Evidence for later interpolations in the Ketaata Sutra- pie-Coming now to the work itself we notice that the Sätrapatha which now goes under the name of Sarvavar- man is divided into four parts : 1. Oi noisting of a STT (²) re eranor (sf*) TEB ne, Pretem, and [fare). (4*). 1 I edopt this form of the nam² in preference to Sarvavarman. The starred names are derived from the first words of the