OR SACRED WRITINGS OF THE HINDUS. 451 



are numbered; and so are the syllables in each 

 text. 



The first section (aniivdca)^ in this collection 

 of prayers, corresponds with the first section 

 (can'dicd) in the white Yajush*: but all the 

 rest differ ; and so does the arrangement of 

 the subjects. Many of the topics are indeed 

 alike in both Vkdas; but differently placed, and 

 differently treated. Thus the ceremony called 

 Rdjasuya occupies one can da ^ corresponding with 

 the eighth pras'na of the first book (Asht'aca); 

 and is preceded by two chidas, relative to the 

 VqjapSi/a, and to the mode of its celebration, 

 which occupy fourteen sections in the preceding 

 pras'na. Consecrated fire is the subject of four 

 cdn'das, which fill the fourth and fifth books. Sa- 

 crifice (ad'hxvara) is noticed in the second and 

 third lectures of the first book, and in several 

 lectures of the sixth. The subject is continued in 

 the seventh and last book ; which treats largely 

 on the Jyotishtoma, including the forms of pre- 

 paring and drinking the juice of acid Asclepias> 

 The As'xvam^dlia, NrimH''Jia, and Pitrim^d'ha, are 

 severally treated of in their places ; that is, in the 

 collection of prayers f, and in the second part of 

 this V^a. Other topics, introduced in different 

 places, are numerous ; but it Would be tedious to 

 specify them at large. 



Among the RjsJus of the texts, I observe no hu- 

 man authors : nine entire cdndas^ according to the 



* Translated in a former essay, with the first verse i^ each of 

 the three other Vedas. Asiatic Researches, Vol. V, p. 364. 



t The prayers of the Aswamed'ha occur in the concluding sec- 

 tions, between the 12lh section of the 4.th chapter, and the end 

 of the fifth chapter of the 7th and last book. 

 Gg2 



