Codex Haug, 52, two volumes. Praśnas 1-15, on 657 paper-leaves In Devanagari characters. Undated; modern. This MS. related to i precisely as to D. S Since Rudradatta has commented on only the first 15 praśnas of the Apastamba Srauta Sútra (see Burmell, Clas A sified Index," note to MS. XCVIII), I shall be compelled to give a different commentary for the text of the remaining prasnas, e., from the beginning of the third volume of the present edition. This procedure occasions indeed a certain want of uniformity; but it did not seem to me an adequate reason for abstaining from printing the best attainable son for commentary, and as such Rudradatta's must certainly be considered. Dr. Burnell (Catalogue of a Collection," p. 21, note to MS. LXXVII) says of it: This commentary is a very excellent one; the Bharadvája, Baudhayana, Acvalayana, Dráhyayana, Satyashádha, and other sutras are constantly quoted" The reader will find that Rudradatta quotes many other works also. But while he takes account of the allied literature so extensively, on the other hand, as the reader will observe, he strives after the greatest possible brevity and terseness, so much so that, sometimes after a lengthy discussion, he accuses himself of prolixity with a fata or some similar phrase (so in i. 1. 3; viii. 1. 2; 16. 5); The text of the Apastamba Srauta Sutra, as is well-known to be the case in all Vedic works, does not show any real vari ants, except in a very few cases; and these have been given in footnotes. Errors of copyists, as well as omissions and addi- tions in the more modern MSS., which are easily recognized as such, have not been noted. As for the commentary, it shows ndeed no lack of varide lectiones; but I came to the con- lusion that to register them would be of little use and ould unduly increase the extent and size of an alreally ufficiently bulky work. In printing the commentary, I have most always given the text of the good MSS. a and by I have eo followed these two MSS. in the violation of the rules AF CESTO FONICKY myys. EX 4. M
