Controversy continues over the position of the paribhāṣās in the textual order of the Āpastamba Śrautasūtra. The paribhāṣās occupy the first four kaṇḍikās of the 24th Praśna in the printed text edited by R. Garbe. They are regarded by Garbe as a later addition and by Narasimhachar as the initial portion of the Śrautasūtra. This paper examines the validity of their views. From a reassessment of their data combined with further grounds the present author concludes that the position in which the paribhāṣās now appear in the printed text is the original one.