460 Mr, CoLESROOKE on the Philosophy of the Hindus. 



The foregoing instances may suffice to give some idea of the nature of 

 the subjects treated in the Mimdnsd, and of the way in which they are 

 handled. They liave been selected as in themselves curious, rather than 

 as instructive specimens of the manner in which very numerous and varied 

 cases are examined and questions concerning them resolved. The argu- 

 ments would be tedious, and the reasons of the solution would need much 

 elucidation, and after all would, in general, be luiinteresting. 



A few examples of the topics investigated, and stUl fewer of the rea- 

 soning applied to them, have tlierefore been considered as better conveying 

 in a small compass a notion of the multifarious subjects of the Mimdnsd. 



NOTES 



TO THE FOREGOING AND SOME PRECEDING ESSAYS. 



A. {Page 441.) 



l^ABARA swAMi AcHARYA is cxprcssly named by Sancara in his commen- 

 tary on the latter Mimdnsd ; (see Brahma Sutra, 3. 3. 53;) and there are 

 allusions to Cumarila bhatta, if no direct mention of him. 



B. (PageU9.') 



Instances of the same prayer recurring either word for word, or with very 

 slight variation, in more than one veda, are innumerable. An eminent 

 example is that of the celebrated gdyatri, of which the proper place is in 

 the Rig-veda (3. 4. 10), among hymns of Viswamitra. It is, however, 

 repeated in all the vedas, and particularly in the 3d, 22d and 36th chapters 

 of the white Yajush. (3, § 35 ; 22, § 9 ; and S6, § 3.) 



Another notable instance is that of the Purusha-sucta, of which a version 

 was given, from a ritual in which it was found cited (As. Res. vol. vii, 

 p. 251). It has a place in the Rig-veda (8. 4. 7.) among miscellaneous 

 hymns ; and is inserted, with some Uttle variation, among prayers employed 

 at the purusha-medha, in the 31st chapter of the white Yajur-veda. 



