Appendix

1. VEDA & VAIDIKA -

RGVEDA : (RV)

1 RV (1) 1 RV (2) Select Suktas and stray Mantras 1 RV (3) Laksana Grantha 1 RV (4) 1 RV (5) 1 RV (6) Upanisad

YAJURVEDA : (YV)

(A) KRSNA (YV) (Taittiriya-Samhita)

1 YV (A) 1 Samhita and Suktas 1 YV (A) 2 Brahmana 1 YV (A) 3 Aranyaka 1 YV (A) 4 Upanisad

(B) SUKLA (YV) (i) Kanva (ii) Madhyandina 1 YV (B) (i) or (ii) (1) Brahmana 1 YV (B) (i) or (ii) (2) Upanisad 1 YV (B) (i) or (ii) (3) Pratisakhya etc.

SAMAVEDA : (SV)

1 SV (1) Samhita 1 SV (2) Brahmana 1 SV (3) Upanisad 1 SV (4) Laksana Grantha (e.g. Anupada, Upgrantha, Phulla, Arsakalpa etc.)

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ATHARVAVEDA : (AV)

1 AV (1) Samhita 1 AV (2) Brahmana 1 AV (3) Upanisad 1 AV (4) Pratisakhya etc. and Miscellaneous works Atharva-Parishishta

1 (MCVL) MISCELLANEOUS VAIDIKA LITERATURE

2. – 2 (i) Shikhsa 2 (ii) 2 (iii) Srauta (as per different and their schools) Srauta (Including Sulva and Prayoga) 2 (iv) Grhya-sutra (Including Sulva and Prayoga) 2 (v) -sutra 2(vi) Chandas (Vaidika) 2 (vii) Vedanga-Jyotisa

3. SMRTI – 3 (i) Mula (Samhita) Smrtis 3 (ii) Nibandhas 3 (ii) (a) Comprehensive works 3 (ii) (b)Treatises on special brances, Ahnika, Acara, Vyavahara, Shraddha, Dana etc. 3 (ii) (c) Pauranika, Ritual, , Pujakalpa, Prayoga, Prayashcitta Santi etc.

4. & PURANA – 4 (i) Itihasa 4 (ii) (Including other i.e. Ananda, Adbhuta, Adhyatma but excluding -) 4 (iii) (Including Harivamsha) 4 (iv) Bhagavadgita 4 (v) Minor Gitas, Samvadas 4 (vi) Jaiminiya-Bharata

2 (Or Jaimintya-Ashvamedha) 4 (vii) Purana (a) Mahapuranas (b) Upapuranas (c) Other Pauranika- 4 (viii) Lesser Pauranika tracts and sections

5. PHILOSOPHY – 5 (i) Compedia (Like Sarva-darshana sangraha) 5 (ii) (In all these systems of Philosophy the order should be: , Commentaries based thereon, Prakaranas and their Commentaries, Vadas) 5 (iii) Navya-Nyaya 5 (iv) 5 (v) Sankhya 5 (vi) Yoga 5 (vii) : 5 (viii) (a) Advaita 5 (viii) (b) 5 (viii) (c) Dvaita 5 (viii) (d) Shuddhadvaita 5 (viii) (e) Shaiva 5 (viii) (f) Kasmira-shaiva 5 (viii) (g) Vira-shaiva 5 (viii) (h) Other Vedanta Schools : Nimbarka, Caitanya. 5 (viii) (i) General Vedantika and other philosophical works e.g. Yoga-vasishtha, Paramartha-Sara etc. 5 (ix) Carvaka

6. BUDDHISTIC –

6 (a) Hinayana, Mahayana 6 (b) (1) Canonical, Pali (i) Vinaya-Pitaka (ii) Sutta-Pitaka (iii) Abhidhamma-Pitaka

3 6 (b) (2) Non-Canonical, Pali 6 (b) (3) Texts and remnants of Samskrita Canons 6 (c) Avadanas, Kathas, and other miscellaneous religious works 6 (d) Buddhistic Philosophy 6 (e) Buddhistic Tantras Dharini

7. JAINA – (Canonical, Non-Canonical, Shvetambara & Digambara) 7 (i) Angas 7 (ii) Upangas 7 (iii) Prakirnakas 7 (iv) Sutras : (a) Cheda Sutras (b) Culika (c) Mula (with Commentaries) 7 (v) (with Commentaries) 7 (vi) Ritual works (, Acara etc.) 7 (vii) Miscellaneous religious works 7 (viii) Philosophy 7 (ix) Jaina- 7 (x) Katha and Charita (Religious)

8. - 8 (i) Treatises ( e.g. Shandilya Sutras and commentaries, treatises on Nama- Mahatmya e.g. Bhagavad-Bhakti-Rasayana and so on) 8 (ii) Stotras : 8 (ii) (a) Pauranika 8 (ii) (b) Nama-sahasra (Trishati Ashtottara and so on) 8 (ii) (c) Philosophical, Tantrika, Mantrika and Poetical Stotras

9. TANTRA - 9 (i) Shaiva

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10. AGAMA - 10 (i) Shaiva 10 (ii) Vaishnava : Pancaratra and Vaikhanas 10 (iii) Shakta 10 (iv) Other Saura, Ganapatya etc.

11. MANTRA-SHASTRA – 11 (i) Treatises 11 (ii) Mere Mantras 11 (iii) Mantra-kalpas

12. KAVYA – 12. (i) Mahakavya 12. (ii) Laghukavya (Including Shatakas and smaller collections) 12. (iii) Rupaka (Drama) Nataka, Prakarana and so on in order of asharupaka 12. (iv) Champu 12. (v) Katha and Akhyayika 12. (vi) Story Literature (Beginning with Pancatantra) 12. (vii) Subhashita 12. (viii) Nitikavya 12. (ix) Anthologies (Sharngadhara-Paddhati, Subhashitavali etc.) 12. (x) Prakrita and Apabhramsha literature

13. – 13 (i) Paniniya : Ashtadhyayi and Commentaries 13 (ii) Katantra or Kaumara or Kalapa 13 (iii) Chandra 13 (iv) Jainendra 13 (v) Shakatayana 13 (vi) Haima 13 (vii) Kaumara 13 (viii) Vopadeva

5 13 (ix) Minor Grammars 13 (x) Special Treatises on Linga, Karaka, Dhatu, Avyaya etc. 13 (xi) Prakrita Grammar 13 (xii) Pali Grammar

14. NIGHANTU (Kosha) 15. PROSODY (Chandashshastra) 16. ALANKARA 17. NATYA 18. GITA 19. SILPA 20. SHASTRA & RAJA SHASTRA 21. RATNA SHASTRA 22. SHASTRA

23. (Vaidyaka) – 23 (i) Complete Systems 23 (ii) On special branches 23 (iii) Materia Medica (Nighantu) 23 (iv) Veterinary Science 23 (v) Alchemy 23 (vi) Vrikshayurveda

24. JYOTISHA – 24 (i) Mathematics 24 (ii) Astronomy (Including Panchanga and Astrology also) 24 (iii) Horoscopy 24 (iv) Prognostics 24 (v) Nighantu

25. THESAURUS – Like Manasollasa, Sivatattva, Ratnakara, Prapanchadhyaya.

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