G The most ancient Grammar of the Vedas. [Jan. 



or quantity of iron in FB, BC = quantity in EF t FC ; EG, 



GC, &c— Q. B. I). 



It' am of these bars be similarly subdivided the same is true; and 

 the most complicated system we chose may thus be devised ; but the 

 same result is true. 



X. B. The effect of the weight of the rods themselves has been 

 neglected in these calculations ; because it is always so small a quantity 

 compared with the tension. A bar of iron one-square inch section will 

 support 9 tons without stretching : the iveight of one foot of such a 

 bar is only 331 lbs., which equals .00148 of a ton, or .00016 of 9 

 tons, a fraction so small that it may be omitted. But the Proposition 

 is nevertheless rigidly true even when the weight of the rods is taken into 

 account. 



Part II. — The most ancient Grammar of the Vedas, or the " Prdti- 

 cdkhyasiltren" 

 Translated from the German of Dr. Roth, by Ludwig E. Rees. 

 Iii the first treatise we spoke but in general terms of these writings. 

 The following essay will dwell more particularly on them. 



1. The Royal Library at Paris possesses (under No. 203 Deva- 

 nagari) a manuscript of the most extensive Praticakhya (on 236 

 pages, Samvat 1/51) with the following words at the end of each Patala : 

 iti-cri-parshada-vyakhyayam Ananda-pura vastavya vajrata-putra Uvata- 

 kritau prati-c;akhya-bhashye, &c. The same work is again found in a 

 more ancient but more carelessly written copy in No. 28 of the East In- 

 dia House (204 pages ex codd. Colebr.) The sutra text alone is again 

 in Xo. 1355 (Samvat 1/81, 24 double pages codd. Colebr.). 



2. As to what regards the size, the Praticakhya of the very 

 careless manuscript No. 598, East India House, is greatly inferior 



double pages, likewise from Colebrooke's Library.) This bad 

 c >py however appears to have been written after a correct MS., and on 

 that account restitution may be made in almost all cases. At the end 

 <>!' tl„- fourth and fifth Adhyava it is entitled: " ity ananda-pura vas- 



l Bhafta vajrata-patra u\'i\t r d-\irRchita-matrimoda/ed/cht/e pratica- 

 khya bhaahye," &c. 



