18-1/.] On the History and Literature of the Veda. 831 



nasadasit-piirwan mahasuktan, paran kshudra-suktan, (tat.) sukta- 

 darsitwad antye dasame mandale sthita rishaya : kshudrasuktamaha- 

 sukta-namana : that is " What is antecedent to nasad asit, is called the 

 great hymn (the collection of great hymns) what succeeds it, the little 

 hymn." The hymn, as here alluded to, commences at the 1 1th Anuvaka 

 of the 10th book. The hymns of the 10 first chapters are also called the 

 great undoubtedly, but in distinction from the 63 very short hymns of 

 the 11th and 12th chapters, which hymns moreover bear a peculiar 

 character. 



The Rishis are all enumerated in the Grihyasutras of Aswalayana, 

 book 3, ch. 4, (MS. 129, E. I. H.) on the occasion of the special 

 kind of honour due to them in connexion with the perusal, as pre- 

 scribed, of the sacred books (Swadhyaya). I quote here the whole 

 passage; for although it probably does not originally belong- to these 

 Sutras, yet it is important for our knowledge of the extent of the 

 Vedic literature, and also of that which is held of the same authority, 

 and it shows in a striking manner, how many works of this period are 

 entirely unknown to us ! — " Atha rishaya : satarchino, madhyama Grit- 

 samado, Yiswamitro, Vamadevo trir, Bharadwajo, Vasishta : Pragatha 

 pavamanya: Ksudrasukta IVlahasukta iti, Prachinaviti Sumantu-Jaimini- 

 Vaisampayana, Paila-sutra-bhashya, bharata-mahabharata-dhanna- 

 charya Jananti-Barhavi, Garjya-Gautama-Sakalya, Babhravya, Man- 

 d av y ai — Mandukeya, Gargi, Vachaknavi, Vadava, Pratitheyi, Sulabha, 

 Maitreyi, Kaholan, Kaushitakan, Maha Kaushitakan, Paijyan, Maha- 

 paijnan,* Sujajnan, Sankhyayanam, Aitareyan, Mahaitareyan, Sakalan, 

 Bashkalan, Sujatavaktram, Audavahim, Mahandavahim, Saujamim, 

 Saunakam, Aswalayanam, ye chanye acharyas, te sarve tripyantw iti. 



The divisions of the single Mandalas are as follow : 



1 . Mand. the Mandala of the Satarchina Rishis, containing in 24 

 Anuvakas 191 Suktas (hymns) by Rishis of different families, includes 

 Asht I. to II. adhyaya 5, varga 16. 



2. Mandala, the Mandala of Gritsamada. Ast. II. 5, 17 to 8, 12. 

 4 iVnuvakas, 42 suktas (an. 1 sukt 4 — 7, are ascribed to Somahuti, the 

 son of Bhrigu. Anuv. 3, 5 — 7, to Kurma, the son of Gritsamada, or to 

 the latter himself.) 



* MS. 986 has the same reading-; but MS. 1839, E. .1. H. grive the eorrcet one. 

 Painjyan, Mahapainjyam. 



