Contents Arlo Griffiths Prefatory Remarks ...................................................... III Philipp Kubisch The Metrical and Prosodical Structures of Books I–VII of the Vulgate Atharvavedasam . hit¯ a ..................................................... 1 Alexander Lubotsky PS 8.15. Offense against a Brahmin ...................................... 23 Werner Knobl Zwei Studien zum Wortschatz der Paippal¯ ada-Sam . hit¯ a .................. 35 Yasuhiro Tsuchiyama On the meaning of the word r¯ as . t . r´ a: PS 10.4 .............................. 71 Timothy Lubin The N¯ ılarudropanis . ad and the Paippal¯ adasam . hit¯ a: A Critical Edition with Trans- lation of the Upanis . ad and N ¯ ar¯ ayan . a’s D¯ ıpik¯ a ............................ 81 Arlo Griffiths The Ancillary Literature of the Paippal¯ ada School: A Preliminary Survey with an Edition of the Caran . avy ¯ uhopanis . ad .............................. 141 Alexis Sanderson Atharvavedins in Tantric Territory: The ¯ A˙ ngirasakalpa Texts of the Oriya Paip- pal¯ adins and their Connection with the Trika and the K¯ al¯ ıkula. With critical editions of the Par¯ ajapavidhi, the Par¯ amantravidhi, and the *Bhadrak¯ al¯ ımantra- vidhiprakaran . a .......................................................... 195 Kei Kataoka Was Bhat . t . a Jayanta a Paippal ¯ adin? ..................................... 313 Walter Slaje Three Bhat . t . as, Two Sult . ¯ ans, and the Kashmirian Atharvaveda .......... 329 Annette Schmiedchen Epigraphical Evidence for the History of Atharvavedic Brahmins ....... 355 Index .................................................................. 387