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containing the exact number of ten verses each. 

 The same collection of prayers, in the same order, 

 but prepared for chanting, is distributed in seven- 

 teen chapters, under the title of the Gramagkya 

 gana. That, at least, is its title in the only copy 

 which I have seen. But rituals, directing the same 

 prayers to be chanted, employ the designation of 

 Archica gana, among other terais applicable to 

 various modes of rhvthmical recitation. 



Another portion of the Sumaveda, arranged for 

 chanting, bears the title of ^VW^'^^^^/fir. Three 

 copies of it*, which seem to agree exactly, exhi- 

 bit the same distribution into three chapters, which 

 are subdivided into half chapters and decades or 

 sections, like the A'rchica above-mentioned t- 

 But I have not yet found a plain copy of it, di- 

 vested of the additions made for guidance ia 

 chanting it. 



The additions here alluded to, consist in pro- 

 longing the sounds of vowels, and resolving diph- 

 thongs into two or more syllables, inserting like- 

 wise, in many places, other additional syllables, 

 besides placing numerical marks for the manage- 

 ment of the voice. Some of the prayers, being 

 subject to variation in the mode of chanting them, 

 are repeated, once or oftener, for the purpose of 

 showing these differences ; and, to most, are pre- 

 fixed the appropriate names of the several pas- 



* The most ancient of those in my possejsion, is dated nearly 

 three centuries ago, in 1587 Samvat. 



t This Aranya comprises nearly three hundred verses (Soman), 

 or exactly 290. The .'iVcAjca coiit^ius twice as mauy, or nearly 

 b'OO. 



