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Ratio of imperf./perf. acc. to Whitney: 106
MS 2237
35
KS (unedited TS 1900
at the time, 27
similar to MS)
ŚBMo(1-5) 1107 107
941
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(6-9) 1504 }
TBk 1426 148 } 1823
25 (10) 319 } 254
106 }
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TAk & 5 (11) 198 }
136 258 }
4 (12) 123 } 453
ABo(1-5) KB 263 65 } 349
929 149 (13) 132 }
27 26 }
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KaṭhB JB 4998 (14) 250
(TBk,TAk) 108 1145 (a,u) 109 337
JUB 544
200
ChU 72 VādhB 51 ch. impf. ABn 151
319 110 19 ch. perf. (6-8) 239
106 Cf. Keith, tr. TS, p. XCVII, CI, CII, and RV Br., p.86.
107 Caland, ed. ŚBK, p. 70, counts 205 perfects in ŚBK where ŚBM has impf.; and 77 impf.
in ŚBK where ŚBM has perf. Altogether, the Kānva books (1-7) have 1265 perf., as against
993 imp. in the corresponding Mādhy. books (1-5). Cf. also Minard, Enigmes I, § 118,
168b, 441c; II, §140, 163b, 180, 717, 147b, 474a.
108 Note that KaṭhB (in Kāṭhakasaṃkalanam, ed. Sūrya Kanta, Lahore 1943, repr. Delhi)
generally still uses the impf. as narr. tense, as does KaṭhA; it is only these late chapters
(dealing with some special forms of the Agnicayana) which employ the narr. perf.
109 The ratio would be higher if the Up. (BAU) would have been counted separately; note,
however, that even the Ar. (ŚB 14.1-3) already employs the narr. perf.
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