¹ For this one passage, B-R give the accent of the substantive as śilpá-, not only in the quotation, but, besides, in a special notice at the beginning of the article. The two editions, on the other hand, in Bibliotheca Indica (third volume 1890) and Ānandāśrama Sanskrit Series (1898) show the normal śílpam. The question arises: from what source do B-R quote? In their list in vol. 1, p. xi (1855), they say only: ‘Taitt. Br. = Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa’, without naming an edition; and the second volume (1858) only repeats this notice. One would first think that they quote from the Bibl. Ind. edition. The dates seem to disagree: vol. 1 of B-R, with the list, is from 1855, and the seventh, with the article śílpa-, from 1875; on the other hand, the first volume of the Bibl. Ind. Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa is dated only from 1859, and the third, with our passage, only from 1890. But the volumes were issued in several numbers, and the year of the title page probably represents that of the last number; the earlier numbers, therefore, might be older. Otherwise, however, when B-R use Bibl. Ind. or other editions, they name them, as for instance under Kaṭhop., Māṇḍ. Up., etc.; besides, it is unlikely, in view of the special notice, that they quoted wrongly. Rather it seems that their quotation is from a manuscript. If so, their reading would be real, and it would be the lectio difficilior.

² Batakrishna Ghosh, in his treatment of śílpa- in his book Les formations nominales et verbales en p du sanskrit (1933), notes (47) the recurrence of this passage in Āp.Śr.S. 2.5.1 (quoting Caland's translation), and its parallel in AV 2.7.3. I was first given the indication of the parallels and the above translation by Professor P.-E. Dumont; according to him, the ‘ornament’ is the veda-, the bunch of kuśa-grass used for cleaning the spoons etc. at the sacrifice, and the ‘summit of the earth’ is the védi-, the altar.

³ Cf. Walde–Pokorny 2.9–10.

⁴ Trautmann, Baltisch-Slavisches Wörterbuch 211.

⁵ Miklosich, Lexicon Palaeoslov. 759; Walde–Pokorny 2.9.

⁶ This *śiplá- may have collided with l-forms of śípra- n.‘lip’.

⁷ The present writer, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 1932.533–4.

⁸ Brugmann–Thumb⁴ 94.

⁹ Op.cit. 159.

^9a Cf. JAOS 65.91 b (1945); and now H. W. Bailey, BSOS 11.791.

¹⁰ Whitney, §1148d; J. Bloch, L'indo-aryen 47 bottom.