Summary: be justified independently of this, P. 80, note *". Cf. Roth, in Ind. Stud vol. ii. p. 147 sq. The importance of the numeration of the hymns for historical and critical purposes is undeniable ; for instance, if, upon comparing a ritual technical term in a particular hymn, it should be found to agree with some intern or proceedings in a ritual denoted by a numeral, there would be an evident induction that that hymm belonged to the age of the ritual in question. Alternatively, a variation would suggest diversity of origin or period, P. 82, note*. P. 82, 1.1 *, Cf. Weber, ib., p. 166 sq., where he shows that the older and more authoritative division is that into books (patha) and hymns (mdnala). P. 82, 1.18. For the MSS. of the Rig-Veda, ea weorte HOLDERSMS. p. 16, 1. 20. P. 82, note *, An inspection of the text of the Rig- Veda would show the justice of this interpretation ; it is enlisted also by Thebaut’s translation. P. 82, note **. For an account of the editors of his text see Weber's analysis of the Veda, in Ind. Stud. vol, ii. fol., p. 430. P. 84, 1.30. For a chronological table of these genea- logies see Weber’s Ind, Stud, vol. i. pp. 439-43. It is difficult to conceive what purpose could have been served by a collection of them into a single work like that of Genealogist : the object of the work was probably not the same as that of the regular genealogist. P, 84, note t. Roth and Whitney translate and commont upon a portion of this astrological work in Ind, Stud. vol. xiii. pp. 281—316.