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Introduction] APPENDICES [xxxiii filled up in most cases from corresponding stanzas in the later Vedas, the text of the khilas is complete, and as far as I have been able to examine it yet, seems to be very fairly correct. Hence there seems reason to believe that a satisfactory edition of the text of these khilas could be produced from the Kashmir MS. 16. Appendices. In order to make this edition as useful as possible, I have added seven appendices to the text. The first (pp. 105-114) contains an alphabetical list of all the Vedic pratikas occurring in the Brhaddevata. Besides Rg-vedic stanzas there occur here only pratikas of the khilas and of a few verses from other Samhitas, mainly the Taittiriya. A few pratīkas represent only the first member of a word or compound (ambi-, sam-, aghora-). In a very few cases the pratika is slightly altered for metrical reasons, chiefly by the dropping of visarga (e. g. kaikata, tivrä, danda) and subsequent contraction with iti. The second appendix furnishes a list of the authorities quoted by the Brhaddevata. It will be observed that the only ones frequently mentioned are Yaska (eighteen times), S'aunaka (fifteen times), S'akatayana (eight times), the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa (eight times), S'akapūņi (seven times), and Galava (five times). It is somewhat remarkable that the Aitareya is mentioned, with only one exception, in passages peculiar to B, while S'akaṭāyana and S'akapūni never appear in such passages, and Yaska only two or three times. The references to S'aunaka are, on the other hand, almost equally divided between B and the common text. The third appendix (pp. 116-131) furnishes an Anukramani of the deities as stated by the Brhaddevata, with the deviations of the Sarvānukramanī added in the footnotes. These variations, which consist mainly of omis- sions of details on the part of the Sarvānukramani, are otherwise surprisingly few and unimportant. They are doubtless due to modified statements in other authorities, principally, no doubt, the Devatanukramani which we do not possess, but which Sadgurusisya often quotes. This commen- tator, in fact, sometimes expressly notes that the Sarvanukramani follows the combined statements of the two Anukramanīs. The fourth appendix (pp. 132, 133) gives an alphabetical list, with cross references, of the stories related in the Brhaddevata. The fifth (pp. 134, 135) contains a list of passages following the order of occurrence in the Brhaddevata, which are quoted elsewhere, chiefly in Sadgurusisya, Sayana, and the Nitimanjari. The sixth (pp. 136-154) is of critical importance as furnishing, in e