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3. AVho protected Angirasa, and Agasti, Mitra and Varuna, Jama- 

 dagni and Atri, who protected Kasyapa and Vasihtha. Do liberate, etc. 



4. Who protected Syavashwa, Vadhryaswa, Mitra and Varuna, 

 Purumilha, Atri, who protected Vimada, Saptavadhri. Do liberate, etc. 



5. Who protected Bharadvaja, Gavishthira, Viswamitra, Varuna, 

 Mitra, Kutsa, who protected Kakshivat and Kanwa. Do liberate, etc. 



6. Who protected Medhatithi, Trisoka, Mitra, Varuna, Usana, 

 the son of Kaviya, Gotama, Mudgala. Do, etc. 



7. The Chariot of whom running on the right road, with tight 

 rein, overjoyed passes the racing. 



I praise you, Mitra and Varuna, I invoke you praying. 



I here give the proof, that the greater number of the persons, men- 

 tioned in the hymn, are Vedic Rishis. 



Jamadagni is (according to the Anukramanika and other sources) 

 author of VIII. 10, 8. IX. 3, 2, 3, 6. 3, 7, 6. IX, 7, 4, 6. X 10, 11, 

 12, 16. 22. — Atri, author of several hymns in the 5th book, Kasyapa 

 for I, 15, 6. VIII. 4, 9. IX. 3, 4. 3, 7, 2. 5, 6. 5. 7. 7, 4, 2. IX. 7, 

 10. The whole 7th book and several parts of the 9th are ascribed to 

 Vasishta. Syaswa (from Atris' family) V. 4, 8 to 5, 5. 5, 10. 6, 

 9, and 10. VIII. 5, 5 to 8. IX. 2. 8. Purumilha (with Ajamitha, both 

 sons of Suhotra) IV. 4, 1 1 and 12. VIII. 2, 8. Saptavadhri (from Atris' 

 family) V, 6, 6. To Bharadwaja the greater number of the hymns 

 of the 6th book is attributed, to Viswamitra the third book, Gavish- 

 thira (with Buddhu) V. 1. 1. Kutsa 1, If;, 1 to 5. 15, 8 to 16, 10. 

 IX, 6, 1, 45 to 58. Kakshivat 1, 17, 1 to 18, 6. IX, 4, 7. Kanwa, 

 1, 1 to 8. IX, 5, 9. Medhatithi, 1, 4, 1 to 5, 4, and several hymns 

 of the 8th book. Trisoka (from Kanwar family) VIII, 6, 3, 3. 

 Usanas IX, 1, 4. 5, 2 to 4. Gotama I an. 13 to 14, and some parts 

 of the 9th book Mudgala, son of Bhrirnyaswus, is named as the author 

 of X, 9, 3. 



5. There is in the Library of the East India House and among 

 Professor Wilson's books deposited in the Bodleyan Library at Oxford, 

 a very extensive collection of these liturgical Sutras, of which the 

 greater number has not found a commentator. Those that I saw are 

 the Sutras of Aswalayana, Apastamba, Draghayana, Katyayana, Lat- 

 vayana, Sankhyayana, Gobhila and Bouddhayana. Aswalayana' s 

 Sutras, with which I am best acquainted, appear, to judge only from 



