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AGRAHAYA~A 51
he added imm~tely ~fer it a second paragraph describing the
seasons as he saw· theui. The words "but here'" at its beginning,
the assignment of four months to the rainy season, but under two
different names of PrAvti•h and Varshl, to keep up the old number
of the seasons, and the absence of any reference to the ilyanas, the
year and the lustrum described in the previous paragraph-all
point to the conclusion that the second paragraph is of later origin
and inserted with a view only to note the changes in the occurrence
of events described in the paragraph next preceding it. It might
be contended that the second paragraph is that of Shushruta, who
notices the old order of things in the first. But I need not go into
that question here. For in either case it is plain that the passage
wherein PhA.lguna and Chaitra are assigned to Vasanta is the pro-
duction of a later writer, whosoever he may be whether Shushruta
or any one else, and as far as our present inquiry is concerned
we cannot take the passage as an authority for holding that Phalguoa
was a Vasanta month in the days of the Taittirtya SaiPhita. I may
however remark, that Vagbha\11 who professes to summarise the
works of Shushruta and Charaka gives the .order and description
of seasons as we find it in the first paragraph in Shushruta • with·
out alluding to the changes noted in the second paragraph. We
may therefore, suppose that either the paragraph did not exist in
Vagbhara's time or that he did not regard it as genuine.
There is thus no reliable authority, that I am aware of, for
holding that PhA.lguna, in the days of the Taittirtya Sa~p.hita, was
a Vasanta month, and SAyapa's explanation does not in conse-
quence bold good at least in this case. The explanation is further
inconsistent with the fact that in several Br4hma¥s and Sfttras
the full-moon night in the month of Ph4lguna has been pronounced
to be the first night of the year. The Shatapatha Br4hmapa ( vi.
2. 2. 18 ) says " the Ph4lgunt full-moon is the first night of the
year. ".The Taittirtya ( i. 1. 2, 8) and the S&nkhyAyana ( iv. 4,
and 4. 1 )t BrAhmatras contain similar passages, while the Gopatha

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