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A. F. R. Hoernle — The Weber Manuscripts. 
[No. 1, 
which are attached to the Kausilca Sutra of the Atharva Veda. 8 I have 
not been able to examine any copies of them, but a brief account of 
them has been given by Professor Weber in his Vedische Nachrichten von 
den Naxatra (pp. 390-393). From this account it appears that the state- 
ments, especially, in the Nakshatra-kalpa, show a curious resemblance to 
those in our manuscript. Thus the Nakshatra-kalpa, too, gives lists not 
only of the shape, the divinity, the number of stars, and the duration 
of muhurtas of every one of the 28 naksliatras, but also of their four- 
fold distribution into Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern, of 
their gotra (or race of Rishi), and of the kind of food that may be taken 
under them. The Nakshatra-kalpa adds some further particulars, cor- 
responding statements to which may have been in the lost portion of 
the manuscript, or may possibly be found in that portion which I have 
not yet been able to examine. 
A confirmation of the age of the work may be found in the cir- 
cumstance, that the information given in it is ascribed to Pushkarasarin. 
This renowned teacher is said to have been a contemporary of Buddha. 
He is mentioned as a teacher in the Pratisakliya Sutra ; and is also cited 
in the Varttikas to Panini by Katyayana, their author. 9 
On the whole, therefore, and subject to the result of an examina- 
tion of the whole manuscript, for which I have not yet been able to 
find time, I have come to the conclusion that this part of the Weber 
Manuscripts contains a hitherto unknown work belonging to the last 
stage of the Vedic period of Sanscrit literature. 
I will, however, here add a few curious particulars that I have 
noticed in my cursory comparison of the manuscript with Prof. Weber’s 
account of the Nakshatra-kalpa and similar works. The list of gotras 
differs entirely ; the only coincidence is in the gotra of Krittika. Most 
of the daivatas agree ; the most striking difference is in the case of the 
27tli nakshatra (Asvini ), for whom our manuscript gives Gandliarva as 
the daivata, while the Nakshatra-kalpa, in common with all other known 
works, gives the two Asvins. Other differences may be mere blunders, 
thus Vaishya in No. 11 and Pushya in No. 26, for Visve and Pushan 
respectively. Nariti in No. 18 may be a local variety of Nirriti. Curious 
are also, in our manuscript, Abhivriddhi and Aryamakalpa in Nos. 24 and 
25, for Ahirbudhnya and Aja-ekapad resjDeetively. The transposition 
of Apa in No. 17, and of Nariti in No. 18, may be an accidental mistake 
for Nariti in No. 17 and Apa in No. 18. In the case of No. 20 (Abhijit) 
our manuscript gives no daivata at all, the usually given daivata 
being Brahman ; but this, too, may be an accidental omission. 
8 See Weber’s History of Indian Literature, p. 153. 
9 See Weber’s History of Indian Literature , pp 102, 285. 
