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The Chandonukramaṇī of the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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The Chandonukramaṇī forms a part of the Vārāhapariśiṣṭas. As is evident from the text given hereunder, it is of immense importance. This little booklet is unknown from any other source. Few scholars know of its existence. The original MS. is in the Baroda library, and was discovered by my friend Mr. R. A. Sastry.
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page 547 note * Of the Vārāhas we know a Śrautasūtra, a Gṛhyasūtra, and two Gṛhyapaddhatis. Of these the Gṛhya with extracts from the Paddhatis has been edited by me for the Panjab "University Oriental Series, and is to come out shortly. The Śrauta and the Parisistas are also being critically edited by me with the collaboration of Professor W. Caland of Utrecht.
page 547 note 1 The MS. 
. Note that there is no verb in the verse. For the last quarter cf. 
: 
(sec. 6, verse 21).
page 547 note 2 The MS. 
.
page 548 note 1 The MS. 
:. The sense of the verse is: There are nine “places” for the mantras, the first three books (known to us as the prathama-kāṇḍa, dvitīya-käṇḍa or madhyama-kāṇḍa, and tṛtīya-kāṇḍa or upari-kāṇḍa), and the last six prapāṭhakas of the supplementary fourth book. 
: in the text stands for pravargya, IV, 9, 
: for IV, 10. 11. 12, 
: for IV, 13, and the last word (to be reconstructed to 
?) for IV, 14.
page 548 note 2 
: is not clear. The number of sections in the last six prapāṭhakas of Schroeder's edition of Maiträyaṇī Saṃhitā is 73. See note on VI, 3.
page 548 note 3 The mantrānuvākas specifically enumerated in the following three verses are those which are interspersed by kalpa- and brāhmaṇa-anuvākas, viz. I, 4, 1 – II, 6, 13. The rest form continuous wholes, and hence the author of the Ch. did not deem it necessary to enumerate them here.
page 548 note 4 I, 4, 1–4.
page 548 note 5 I, 5, 1–4.
page 548 note 6 I, 6, 1–2.
page 548 note 7 I, 7, 1.
page 548 note 8 I, 9, 1–2.
page 549 note 1 I, 10, 2–4.
page 549 note 2 I, 11, 1–4.
page 549 note 3 I, 11, 10 (the last section of Vāj.). 
: could have better been replaced by 
:.
page 549 note 4 In Kāmyā iṣṭayaḥ there are four mantra sections: II, 2, 6 3, 4. 8; 4, 7.
page 549 note 5 Sixteen is the total number of the five sections of Vājapeya, four of the Kāmyā iṣṭayaḥ, and seven of Rājasūya mentioned in the next line.
page 549 note 6 II, 6, 7–13.
page 549 note 7 Thus the MS. The entire line is unintelligible. The second hemistich is equally difficult.
page 549 note 8 A complete list of mantrānuvākas is given here for ready reference and verification:—
The total amounts to 350 mantrānuvākas in Schroeder's edition, while according to Ch. it is only 336.
page 550 note 1 I, 4, 10 (p. 58, 11. 10 and 11), IV, 1, 6 (p. 8,1. 8). The word 
is not to be understood.
page 550 note 2 The MS. 
.
page 550 note 3 The MS. 
. I, 1, 2; IV, 1, 2. 
is not a satisfactory emendation, for the fifth syllable is long.
page 550 note 4 I, 1, 1.
page 550 note 5 I, 1, 4.
page 550 note 6 I, 1, 5.
page 550 note 7 I, 1, 7.
page 550 note 8 I, 2, 4.
page 550 note 9 I, 2, 12.
page 550 note 10 I, 3, 2.
page 550 note 11 I, 4, 2.
page 550 note 12 I, 9, 2.
page 550 note 13 I, 9, 1.
page 550 note 14 I, 11, 10.
page 550 note 15 II, 6, 7.
page 550 note 16 II, 7, 18–20.
page 550 note 17 II, 8, 2.
page 550 note 18 II, 8, 4.
page 550 note 19 The MS. 
Perhaps 
: signifies here three, for the next two sections are also yajurmaya anuvākas.
page 550 note 20 II, 8, 8–11.
page 551 note 1 The reference is to II, 8, 13 (the last section but one of the eighth prapāṭhaka), II, 9, 3–8, II, 11, 1–6, and II, 12, 2 (räṣṭrabhṛtaḥ).
page 551 note 2 II, 13, 2.
page 551 note 3 II, 13, 3.
page 551 note 4 II, 13, 4.
page 551 note 5 II, 13, 12.
page 551 note 6 
: refers back to II, 13, 3. 4. 12.
page 551 note 7 II, 13, 14–21.
page 551 note 8 “The second and the fifth in Sautrāmaṇi,” III, 11, 2. 5.
page 551 note 9 III, 12, 2–15.
page 551 note 10 Thus the MS. Cf. verse 13. The reference is to III, 13, 2–20 (?).
page 551 note 11 Among the praiṣas there are three yājuṣa sections, the two preceding the last (IV, 13, 8–9), and the second one (IV, 13, 2).
page 551 note 12 The yājuṣa sections, not containing any ṛks, are:
Our total is 137, as against that of the Ch. 79.
page 551 note 13 The MS. 
:.
page 551 note 14 I, 5, 1.
page 551 noet 15 I, 11, 2.
page 551 note 16 II, 7, 5.
page 551 note 17 II, 7, 13.
page 552 note 1 II, 7, 14.
page 552 note 2 II, 9, 1–2.
page 552 note 3 II, 10, 2–6.
page 552 note 4 II, 12, 1.
page 552 note 5 II, 12, 4–6.
page 552 note 6 II, 13, 5–11. 
means the prapāṭhaka. The Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā designates its chapters as sthānakas.
page 552 note 7 II, 13, 22–23.
page 552 note 8 III, 11, 1.
page 552 note 9 III, 11, 3. 6. 9. 10 (?). 11. 12.
page 552 note 10 The MS. 
:. In Schroeder's Mait. S. text the ārcika sections are III, 12, 18. 21; 13, 1. It is very probable that the eighteenth section of Schroeder's edition was a part of either the preceding or the following section, and hence not an ārcika section. Thus the last section of the third book would be the twentieth, and 
: would refer to III, 13, 1.
page 552 note 11 For 
the MS. has 
= aśvamedha. The five ārcika sections at the end are III, 16, 1–5. The seven anuvākas are III, 12, 20; 13, 1; 16, 1–5.
page 552 note 12 IV, 10–12.
page 552 note 13 IV, 13, 1. 3. 6.
page 552 note 14 IV, 14, 1–18.
page 552 note 15 Thus the MS. This line is very corrupt, though the sense is fairly clear—the number of pure ārcika anuvākas is 76. Here is my own list:—
page 553 note 1 “The yājuṣa and ārcika anuvākas being deducted, the remaining anuvākas, in which both the ṛks and yajus are found, are 121.” Here the total number of anuvākas assumed is 276, instead of 336 of verse 14.
page 553 note 2 ?.
page 553 note 3 The MS. 
.
page 553 note 4 Thus the MS.
page 553 note 5 I, 2, 9.
page 553 note 6 I, 3, 5 seq.
page 553 note 7 The MS. 
:.