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Contents of Appended Auxiliary Matter
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Indexes and other auxiliary matter 1011–1046
1. The non-metrical passages of the Atharvan Saṁhita 1011
Tabular list 1011
2. Hymns ignored by the Kāuçika-Sūtra 1011–1012
Tabular list 1012
3. The two methods of citing the Kāuçika-Sūtra 1012
Tabular concordance 1012
4. The discrepant hymn-numbers of the Berlin and Bombay editions 1013
Tabular concordance 1013
5. Pāippalāda passages corresponding to passages of the Vulgate 1013–1023
Primary use of the table, its genesis and character 1013
Incidental uses of the table 1013
Vulgate grand division III. and Pāippalāda book xviii. 1014
Conspectus of the contents of Pāippalāda book xviii. 1015
Explanation of the table 1016
Manner of using the table 1017
Tabular concordance 1017–1023
6. Whitney's English captions to his hymn-translations 1024–1037
They form an important element in his interpretation of this Veda 1024
In tabular form, they give a useful conspectus of its subject-matter 1024
Table of hymn-titles of Division I., books i.—vii. 1024–1032
[Stop-gap: the division of this work into two separately bound volumes] 1033
Table of hymn-titles of Division II., books viii—xii. 1034
Table of hymn-titles of Division III., books xiii—xviii. 1035
Table of hymn-titles of the Supplement, book xix. 1036–1037
7. The names of the seers of the hymns 1038–1041
Whitney's exploitation of the Major Anukramaṇī 1038
Doubtful points 1038
Entire books of division III. ascribed each to a single seer 1038
Value of these ascriptions of quasi-authorship 1038
Prominence of Atharvan and Brahman as seers 1039
Hymns of Atharvan and hymns of Aṅgiras: possible contrast 1039
Consistency in the ascriptions 1039
Palpably fabricated ascriptions 1040
Alphabetical index of seer-names and of passages ascribed to them 1040–1041
8. Brief index of names and things and words and places 1042–1044
An elaborate index uncalled for here 1042
Alphabetical list of names and things 1042
Alphabetical list of Sanskrit words 1044
List of AV. passages 1044
9. Additions and corrections 1044–1046
Omissions and errors not easy to rectify in the electrotype plates 1045