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must be made here. The Eastern Central Kāṇva school (books 1-7) has only 7
cases of khalu, as compared to the corresponding Mādhy. books 1-5, with 24
cases. It is interesting to note that the Kāṇvas often substitute svid where the
Mādhy. have khalu. 248 This distribution again agrees with the overall picture
which the Kāṇva books exhibit. They form a pièce de résistance in the East,
wedged between the Taitt. and the Mādhy. schools.
The originally Western (Śāṇḍilya) books ŚBM 6-10, as well, contain only 2
cases, and therefore stand very close to the Kāṇvas and Kaṭhas, in opposition
to the Maitr./Taitt. schools. 249 The later Mādhy. books 11-13, however, have
11 cases, while BAU (book 14, 3-9) has 9 cases. The later ŚBM, of Eastern
origin, thus prefers to use khalu, while its truly Western components avoid it,
although the latter had probably been transmitted to the East by the time of
ŚBM composition.
Finally, it is interesting to note that an originally Western but late text, PB,
makes frequent use of khalu. The text, as we have it now, may, however, have
been redacted in the East. This holds true for ChU (with diminished
percentage of khalu) as well, which belongs to the same SV school but
contains some geographical materials which place it more in the direction of
the Centre or the East. This low figure makes the text more akin to ŚBK
(997%) and especially the "Western" Śāṇḍilya books of ŚBM (426%). 250
Unfortunately, this picture cannot be supplemented by the evidence of such
late Br. and early Śrauta Sūtra texts as VādhB and BŚS, for here again, VPK
does not provide sufficient information.
§7.2 The occurrences of svid
The case of svid serves as a counter-check in that it replaces khalu in a few
texts, such as ŚBK. If the occurrences of both khalu and svid are compared
(see the maps), it becomes apparent that they tend to supplement each other;
texts that have khalu have few cases of svid, and vice versa.
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248
Cf. also Caland, ed.ŚBK p.78 ("vai or svid"); at ŚBK 5.2.1.5 khalu svid ŚBK, but svid
ŚBM.
249
It is important to note that there are more similarities between the Kaṭha/Caraka and
the Western ŚB books; see below.
250
The redaction is very late; probably the text was summarized out of a larger (Prauḍha),
lost *Kauth. Br. referred to above, cf. ann.125, 223,250,290,334.
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