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Aśvamedha book were added). These chapters deal largely with the Sattra,
with additions to the New and Full Moon sacrifice, and with the Prāyaścittas.
The Maitrāyaṇīyas (681%) have strongly influenced the Taittirīyas, who
otherwise often closely follow the Kaṭhas (see §7.4 on sam.yat). TS, a text
smaller in size than MS, contains 134 cases (1890%), more than double that of
MS with 69 cases (681%), and the trend strongly continues in the post-
Saṃhitā texts of the Taittirīyas (TB 2739%, TA 3443 %) and the originally
Central, later Southern JB (4452 %). The other Western, Central, and
E.Central schools do not follow this trend to that extent; they range from
426% (Western boks of ŚBM) to 1300 % only, with the usual exception of the
late PB with 1934%. Note also that the SV Kṣudra Sūtra still uses khalu quite
frequently in its Br. -like ch. 3. The East, however, participates strongly in the
trend (ŚBM 3662-4211%, and even in the Up. still 2476%).
The occurrence of khalu then diminishes in some late Vedic texts, and not
only in the East (ŚBMu): MU 203; ChU 663%, down from PB 1934%, JUB
1252% (< JB 4409%), ABn 0 (< Abo 1295%; this is an unexplainabe figure),
AA still 455%, and even ŚBMa has no cases.
This is another case of disagreement between śākhā features on one hand
and dialect features on the other. Schools that reside in the same territory do
not always agree with the local usage. In this case, the split is between the
Yajurvedins and the Ṛgvedins; it is only the Yajurvedins (with the exception
of the Kaṭhas and Kāṇvas) and the Southern Sāmavedins (JB,JUB) who
heavily employ this particle. In matters of style, like the use of a particular
particle, the schools apparently often followed their own predilection and did
not necessarily conform to the fashions of the dominant YV group in a
particular area. Thus, the Eastern Ṛgvedins (ABn) totally disagrree with the
Eastern Yajurvedins (ŚBM), and the Central Ṛgvedins (KB) do not
participate as strongly as for example the SV does: The (Southern)
Jaiminīyas derive their text from the originally Central text of the
Śāṭyāyanins, who were living in the same territory as the Taitt.s, and thus
agree with the trend. Caland's ed. of JB, however, seems to contain only 9
cases of khalu, not a very large number for such a long text. The Vedic Word
Concordance is, unfortunately, insufficient as far as the complete edition of
the text (by Raghu Vira) is concerned. No4e that the later Jaim. text, JUB,
also has only 2 cases in VPK (Br. vol.).
The use of khalu in the older Saṃh. and Br. period is thus restricted to the
two Yajurveda texts of the Maitr. and Taitt. schools. The later Br. texts
reveal the same picture, with the exception of the ŚB; some differentiation
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