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PREFACE. iii raja, prepared a special treatise entitled Sulvapradipavivaranam. It is complete in six chapters called Patalas. Mayuresa Upadhyaya, the son of Purusottama, and the grandson of Gopala, surnamed Dupanamogha, belonging to the Maudgalya Gotra, wrote a commentary on a work on the formation of altars, entitled Vedipaddhati-tika. The work commented upon seems to be Vedipaddhati, and the colophon makes it probable that the commentator was also the author of the work. Before the compilation of a comprehensive work on Grammar by Panini, the Brahmins resorted to various shifts to preserve the purity of the pronunciation and grammatical construction of the Vedas. They sometimes counted words ending in particular letters, Visargas, Anusvaras and so on. They counted the number of compound words and words of peculiar construction, and embodied the result of their counting in the form of books, to be memorised. One such work is described in this volume, entitled Caturjnanam, viz., the knowledge of four things: (1) Visarga sandhi; (2) sandhis resulting in diphthongs; (3) words ending in the letter N; and (4) the distinction of simple and compound words, throughout the whole of the Rgveda. The extent of the work is 600 slokas. See p. preface to the Nirukta, edited by Acarya Satyavrata Samasrami. The rest of the works on this subject are liturgical, e.g., Cayanaprayoga, on the kindling of sacred-fire; Pakatantrakusandikaprayoga, on the use of ordinary 'Homa' in sacrificial cooking; Taittiriya-homa-paddhati on the homa according to the black Yajurveda; Yajamana-patny-anyatara-sannidhane Darsa-paurnamasa-prayoga on the question how the fortnightly ceremonies of those who keep up the sacred fire throughout their lives are to be performed in the absence either of the householder or of his wife; Rgvediya-sraddha-prayoga treats of the performance of the Sraddha ceremony by the followers of the Rgveda; Samantraka-yajurvedi-graha-yajnagni-sthapana-vidhi treats of the kindling of fire for the purpose