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The Brahrnapa is followed by tbe 13th book of the Kaus'ika 

 Sutras, which treats the same subject in a much fuller manner. The 

 rules, however, are here given without any apparent order or method, 

 and Dr. Weber argues for them a higher antiquity. 



One of the most interesting passages is that which gives the 

 formula to be used in case two ploughs become entangled. In the 

 hymn here used we find a direct personification of the furrow, Sttci, 

 — " black-eyed, bearing a lotus, beautiful in every limb, decked with 

 a golden garland, the golden wife of Parjanya, the god of rain." 

 Two of the most living creations of the later Indian muse are thus 

 dissolved by modern criticism into ancient personifications of natural 

 objects, — the Sita* of the Bamayaua into the Vedic ploughman's 

 1 furrow,' and the Urvas'l of Kalidasa into the dawn which awoke 

 bim to his daily toil ! 



* Cf. Bam. i. 66. 



Eeeata m Vol. XXVIII. 



P. 4. 1. 19, for opposition read apposition. 

 P. 28. 1. 2, infra, for <w$\ read i^l 



