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Book II.

⌊THE second book is made up mostly of hymns of 5 verses each. It contains 22 such hymns, but also five hymns (namely, 3, 4, 14, 15, and 32) of 6 verses each, five hymns (namely, 5, 17, 27, 29, and 33) of 7 verses each, and four hymns (namely, 10, 12, 24, and 36) of 8 verses each. Compare page 1. The possibilities of critical reduction to the norm are well illustrated by hymns 10, 12, 14, 27; see, for example, the critical notes to ii. 10. 2.

The whole book has been translated by Weber in the Monatsberichte der Kön. Akad. der Wiss. zu Berlin, June, 1870, pages 462-524. This translation was reprinted, with only slight changes, in Indische Studien, vol. xiii. (1873), pages 129-216. The following references to Weber have to do with the reprint.⌋