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were several occasions 225 where it was obvious that the Pañcaviṃsa-Br.<br />
deviated from the other Vedic texts. First of all, it is an extremely<br />
abbreviated text, if compared to JB; such a degree of shortening is not<br />
otherwise found; see, for example, the degree of abbreviation and shortened<br />
retelling of older myths when found in TS, as compared to the older KS. On<br />
the other hand, PB tends to be extremely "archaic" in the use of the tenses.<br />
This is probably intentional, as at the same time, such late developments as<br />
the forms dugdhe, tanūm, yuvām, śirasā, etc., are found.<br />
It seems that the Kauthuma school, which has no really old Brāhmaṇa texts,<br />
except for ChU (still late Vedic, though with some colloquial traits),<br />
reworked, at a late stage, and some older and unfortunately lost or<br />
untraceable Sāmaveda Brāhmaṇa, 226 in close cooperation with the<br />
Kapiṣṭhala-Kaṭhas, perhaps in Gujarat, as one of the Śrautasūtras of this<br />
school, the Lāṭyāyana ŚS, seems to indicate and where the Kap. seem to have<br />
moved in the late/pots-Vedic period 227 ; the home of the author of LŚS<br />
apparently was in Lāṭī, an area of S. Gujarat. 228 Note, in this context, that<br />
LŚS/DŚS must indicate the localities on the Sarasvatī by specifying them in<br />
detail, with the help of an inserted clause. 229 The author(s) of these texts<br />
apparently lived far away from Kurukṣetra. 230<br />
Again, such forms as mentioned above serve as warning signs. One could,<br />
without suspicion, lump a text like PB together with older Brāhmaṇas like<br />
TB, etc., as it seems to conform to their shibboleth-- the use of the impf. as<br />
narrative tense-- if it were not for the late verbal, pronominal, and nominal<br />
forms quoted above.<br />
"Eastern RV"?<br />
224<br />
Cf. above §6.5 on svar.<br />
225<br />
See for example, gen.fem -ai,§ 5.1, etc.; see also § 10.2<br />
226<br />
Note that even their Kṣudra Sūtra contains many Br.-like passages.<br />
- The final redaction may have taken place in the East, cf. the Videha king Namin Sāpya at<br />
PB 25.10.17, and the tradition about a bhāṣika accented PB text, see below ann.<br />
230,317,334.<br />
227<br />
See § 6.4 on the homeland of KpS<br />
228<br />
See Weber and Parpola, Transl. LŚS/DŚS p. 29. Is the split between Kauthumas (LŚS)<br />
and Rāṇāyaṇiyas (DŚS) due to the movement of one subschool to Gujarat (together with<br />
the Maitr., and perhaps the Kap.), while the other went eastwards to Videha (cf.the Videha<br />
king Namin Sāpya in PB 25.10.17)? The Drāhy. (see Parpola.LŚS tr. p, 40), later on are<br />
found in S. India (together with the Taitt.) cf. ann. 230,334. Both schools differ in the use of<br />
-ym- (Kauth.) viz. -jm- (Drāh.).<br />
229<br />
See K. Hoffmann, Ortsnamenparenthese, Aufs. p.123 sq., cf. Parpola, Transl. p. 30,<br />
ann.1.<br />
230<br />
Cf., however, the supposed movement of the Kauthumas to the East, see ann. 223, note<br />
the alledged bhāṣika accents of PB (Śabara); cf. Parpola, transl. LŚS, p. 30, cf. ann. 228.<br />
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