कौषीतकि ब्राह्मण (शाङ्खायन ब्राह्मण - उदय प्रणीत व्याख्या सहित सटीक)

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of notation. Thus I had no doubt whether the passages were to be punctuated
or not.
Not only that, as KEITH complains, LINDNER did not make use of the Malayā-
ḷam manuscript (IO) effectively, but he also misrepresented many readings found
in that manuscript³. His remarks that the Malayāḷam manuscript contains 260
Khaṇḍikas and that five Khaṇḍikas, namely, XVI 10 and XXVI 3 to 6, are omitted
in the manuscript by mistake of the scribe (Einleitung, pp. VII and VIII), are
not correct. The Malayāḷam manuscripts all agree in the number of Khaṇḍas
which is 272. The Khaṇḍas referred to above which are found in LINDNER's
edition (L) based on the non-Malayāḷam manuscripts are uniformly omitted in the
Malayāḷam manuscripts and in the commentary referred to above.
A detailed statement of the number of Adhyāyas and the Khaṇḍas found in
LINDNER's edition (L) as against the Malayāḷam manuscripts is given below:

Adhyāya	No. of Khaṇḍas (Lindner)	No. of Khaṇḍas (Malayāḷam Mss.)	Adhyāya	No. of Khaṇḍas (Lindner)	No. of Khaṇḍas (Malayāḷam Mss.)
I	5	5	XVI	11	10
II	9	9	XVII	9	7
III	9	12	XVIII	14	9
IV	14	10	XIX	10	7
V	10	10	XX	4	6
VI	15	11	XXI	6	7
VII	10	12	XXII	9	6
VIII	9	12	XXIII	8	11
IX	6	6	XXIV	9	8
X	6	10	XXV	15	14
XI	8	9	XXVI	17	14
XII	8	10	XXVII	7	12
XIII	9	7	XXVIII	10	8
XIV	5	7	XXIX	8	8
XV	5	6	XXX	11	9
			Total	276	272
According to the present edition the entire KB contains 6962 passages.
On the subject of editing the Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa I had a number of very
interesting and useful discussions with my European colleagues and friends. I am
especially grateful to the late lamented veteran Vedic scholar Prof. LOUIS RENOU
at Paris, Prof. PAUL THIEME at Tübingen, Prof. KARL HOFFMANN at Erlangen,
³ See:
Page No.	Footnote No.	Page No.	Footnote No.
:---	:---	:---	:---
32	8	126	5; 7
46	8	136	3
64	2	140	2
65	1	143	7
77	4	146	10
82	12	147	7
111	2	158	1

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               Preface                IX
Prof. THOMAS BURROW at Oxford, Prof. JOHANNES C. HEESTERMAN at Utrecht,
and, last not least, Dr. WOLFGANG TREUE of the German Research Association
at Bad Godesberg. The debt I owe to my friend Prof. KLAUS L. JANERT of the
Albertus Magnus University, Cologne, cannot be repaid with a formal giving of
thanks. Furthermore, I feel deeply obliged to the Secretary General of the Deutsche
Morgenländische Gesellschaft (the German Oriental Society), Dr. WOLFGANG
VOIGT, Director of the Oriental Department at the Staatsbibliothek, Marburg and
W. Berlin, for his assistance and for the great interest he has always shown in the
progress of my work. Indeed, both, Prof. JANERT and Dr. VOIGT are mostly
responsible for my taking up this work, collecting the manuscripts, recording the
text on tape, and bringing out the present edition of the Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa.
My warmest thanks are also due to my publishers, Herr FRANZ STEINER †
and Dr. CLAUS STEINER as well as to the printers who have spared no pains to
master a very difficult task most competently. I am very grateful to Herr KARL
JOST, Steiner-Verlag (Wiesbaden), for all the help he has given while the work
was passing through the press.
In working on this edition, I have received assistance from several German
institutions. I wish to express my sincerest thanks for their generous support,
notably to the Albertus-Magnus-Universität (Köln) for its liberal hospitality,
the Heinrich-Hertz-Stiftung (Düsseldorf) for granting my travelling expenses,
and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (the German Research Association,
Bad Godesberg) not only for a subsidy towards the cost of printing.
In India, my teacher Mr. NĀRĀYAṆA PISHAROTI took a very keen interest
in the work and helped me in many ways. But if there is any merit in this work
the credit for that should go to Mr. Ē. RĀMAN NAMPŪTIRI who even neglecting his
old age and ill-health recited the entire text of the Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa for my
recording. His enthusiasm and joy in doing this work is matched only by his
love for the cause of his Vedic Śākhā, which is Kauṣītaka.
A number of colleagues at Tirupati have helped me in preparing the various
indexes and the press-copy of the text. My thanks are due to Messrs. M. SRIMAN-
NARAYANA MURTHY, K. S. RAMAMURTHY, K. SRINIVASAVARADAN, S. V. BHASKAR
and V. ANJANEYA SARMA who have rendered help in one way or other. It was my
luck that Pandit K. P. AITHAL of the Adyar Library could go through the proofs.
His intimate knowledge of śrauta procedure has helped me in improving the
usefulness of the indexes. My thanks are due to him.
I hope this edition will be found useful to the scholars and I shall succeed in
bringing out the elaborate commentary by Udaya on the Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa
in the near future.
                            E. R. Sreekrishna Sarma
Department of Sanskrit,
Sri Venkateswara University,
Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh,
1-7-1968