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material assistance in tracing the development of this im- 

 portant branch of Hindu science. It could not fail to throw 

 at the same time light on many difficult and highly interest- 

 ing questions regarding general Sanskrit literature. I add 

 a list of the MSS. of these works as given in the Catalogue 

 Raisonne'. 



1. Zakatayana vyakaranam (£akatayana-vyakaranam) 

 " It contains sutras, brief aphorisms with vrutta (read 

 vritti) amplification (sic)." Cat, R I, 348. 



'2. Zakatayana do. I, 349. 



3. Sacatayana vyakyanam, a commentary on the sutras 

 of Panini (sic) by Sactayana (sic) I, 353. If the book is 

 really composed by ^akatayana the description must be 

 wrong. 



4. Gana pattam, lexicon, by Sacattayana (read Ganapa- 

 tha mascul.) I, 399. The description of the work must be 

 totally wrong, if the work is really a Ganapatha. For Gana- 



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(a) Regarding (^akatayana, the following extract from a letter, dated 

 May 22nd 1863, from Professor Goldstiicker to the Editor, will be 

 perused with interest. " Before I chat with you on our and my doings in 

 this part of the world, let me allude briefly to the immediate cause of this 

 letter, I mean the great and mysterious £aka|-ayana. That he is great, 

 no believer in the eight books of Panini can doubt wit hout tainting himself 

 with heresy. Eor Panini mentions him, as his Patafijali says, pujartham, 

 "to do him honour" — and Panini oan do no honour to a little man. This 

 mysteriousness, however, is another affair, which I will explain to you, in 

 order to obtain light from you. £dka|"ayana is a family namc # which may 

 belong to more than one personage. One such grammarian is named by 

 the author of the Ganarainamahodadhi. I mentioned the fact, and the 

 importance attached to (^akat ay ana's name in my " Panini, &c." p. 177 

 ff., but on examining closely all the passages of that work, I arrived at 

 the conclusion that this Cakatayana very probably cannot have been the 

 predecessor of Panini. A grammar of (p;ikatciyana m Sanskrit, but in the 

 abominable Hala-Karna>a-characters, is amongst the palm-leaf j\i>S. of the 

 India Office. I have had a number of passages copied from it for me — 

 and the result of my investigations is that this ^aka^iyana too, is not the 

 one mentioned by Panini- The last hope is therefore your £aka[avana at 

 Madras ; but as the MS. of the India Office comes, I believe, likewise 

 from Madias, I greatly apprehend that both may contain the same work." 



