76 Professor Buhler's Remarks 



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* 

 l ng questions regarding general Sanskrit literature. I add 

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

 Raisonnd 



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 Saetayana (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- 



(a) Regarding 9^katayana, the following extract from a letter, dated 

 May 22nd 18G3, from Professor Goldstiicker to the Editor, v\ ill 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 QakaJ-ayana. That he is great, 

 no believer iuthe eight books of Panini can doubt without t ainting himself 

 with heresy. For Panini mentions him, as his Patahjali says, pujartham, 

 " to do him honour" — and Pacini oan do no h< nour to a little man. This 

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

 order to obtain li^ht from you. £u.ka^ayana is a family name 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 

 importa' ce attached to (^akatiiy 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 Qakatayana very probably cannot have been the 

 predecessor of Panini. A grammar of £akatayana in Sanskrit, but in the 

 abominable Hala-Kama>a-characters, is amongst, the palm-leaf M^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 ^dka^ayana too, is not the 

 one mentioned by P&nini. The last hope is therefore your Qakatayana at 

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

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



