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INTRODUCTION
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the Karakas, whom it places at the head of all schools of
the Ya^ur-veda. Another argument in favour of the high
antiquity of the Kaz'/zas may be derived from their geogra-
phical position1. Though the statements of the Maha-
bhashya and Ramayazza regarding the wide-spread and
influential position of the Kaz'/zas in ancient times are borne
out by the fact that the JTarazzavyuha mentions three sub-
divisions of the KaVzas, viz. the Kaz'/zas proper, the Pra/ya
Kaz'/zas, and the Kapishz'/zala Kaz’/zas, to which the ATara-
yazziyas may be added as a fourth, and by the seeming
identity of their name with the name of the KaOatoi. in the
Pan gab on the one hand, and with the first part of the
name of the peninsula of Kattivar on the other hand, it
seems very likely nevertheless that the original home of the
Kaz'/zas was situated in the north-west, i. e. in those regions
where the earliest parts of the Vedas were composed. Not
only the Kaflcuot, but the Kag/StWoAoi as well, who have
been identified with the Kapishz'/zala KaZ/zas2, are men-
tioned by Greek writers as a nation living in the Pangab ;
and while the Pra/ya Kaz'/zas are shown by their name
Eastern Kaz'/zas ’) to have lived to the east of the two
other branches of the Kaz'/zas, it is a significant fact that
adherents of the A/arayazziya-kaz'/zaka school survive no-
where but in Ka^mir, where all Brahmazzas perform their
domestic rites according to the rules laid down in the
Gzvhya-sutra of this school3. Ka^mir is moreover the
country where nearly all the yet existing works of the
Kaz'/zaka school have turned up, including the Berlin MS.
of the Kaz'Zaka, which was probably written by a Kay-
mirian4. It is true that some of the geographical and
historical data contained in that work, especially the way
in which it mentions the Pan^alas, whose ancient name, as
shown by the Satapatha Brahmazza (XIII, 5. 4, 7) and Rig-
1 See Weber, Uber das Ramayazza, p. 9 ; Ind. Stud. I, p. 189 seq.; III, p 469
seq.; XIII, pp. 375, 439; Ind. Litteraturgeschichte, pp. 99, 332; Zimmer,
Altindisch.es Leben, p. 102 seq.
2 See, however, Max Muller, Hist. Anc. Sansk. Lit., p. 333.
3 Biihler, Kasmir Report, p. 20 seq.
4 This was pointed out to me by Dr. Buhler.
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the Karakas, whom it places at the head of all schools of
the Ya^ur-veda. Another argument in favour of the high
antiquity of the Kaz'/zas may be derived from their geogra-
phical position1. Though the statements of the Maha-
bhashya and Ramayazza regarding the wide-spread and
influential position of the Kaz'/zas in ancient times are borne
out by the fact that the JTarazzavyuha mentions three sub-
divisions of the KaVzas, viz. the Kaz'/zas proper, the Pra/ya
Kaz'/zas, and the Kapishz'/zala Kaz’/zas, to which the ATara-
yazziyas may be added as a fourth, and by the seeming
identity of their name with the name of the KaOatoi. in the
Pan gab on the one hand, and with the first part of the
name of the peninsula of Kattivar on the other hand, it
seems very likely nevertheless that the original home of the
Kaz'/zas was situated in the north-west, i. e. in those regions
where the earliest parts of the Vedas were composed. Not
only the Kaflcuot, but the Kag/StWoAoi as well, who have
been identified with the Kapishz'/zala KaZ/zas2, are men-
tioned by Greek writers as a nation living in the Pangab ;
and while the Pra/ya Kaz'/zas are shown by their name
Eastern Kaz'/zas ’) to have lived to the east of the two
other branches of the Kaz'/zas, it is a significant fact that
adherents of the A/arayazziya-kaz'/zaka school survive no-
where but in Ka^mir, where all Brahmazzas perform their
domestic rites according to the rules laid down in the
Gzvhya-sutra of this school3. Ka^mir is moreover the
country where nearly all the yet existing works of the
Kaz'/zaka school have turned up, including the Berlin MS.
of the Kaz'Zaka, which was probably written by a Kay-
mirian4. It is true that some of the geographical and
historical data contained in that work, especially the way
in which it mentions the Pan^alas, whose ancient name, as
shown by the Satapatha Brahmazza (XIII, 5. 4, 7) and Rig-
1 See Weber, Uber das Ramayazza, p. 9 ; Ind. Stud. I, p. 189 seq.; III, p 469
seq.; XIII, pp. 375, 439; Ind. Litteraturgeschichte, pp. 99, 332; Zimmer,
Altindisch.es Leben, p. 102 seq.
2 See, however, Max Muller, Hist. Anc. Sansk. Lit., p. 333.
3 Biihler, Kasmir Report, p. 20 seq.
4 This was pointed out to me by Dr. Buhler.