Grihya Sutras

SR No.: 007685
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1886
Total Pages: 2642
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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INTRODUCTION.
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varahautrakam). Here Nyâya in the sense of method, way, plan, seems to stand for Paribhasha. Another name is Samânya-sutra (see Burnell, Classified Index, p. 15 b, where it is mentioned as $ 4 of Prasna XXIV). Kaundappakarya himself, who is said to have been minister of Vîrabhûpati, the son of the famous king Bukka of Vigayanagara, begins his work with a paribhåshå-parikkheda.
I published a German translation of these Satras with notes many years ago, in the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1855. I here give the same translation, but I have shortened the notes and compared the translation once more with the MSS.
The principal MSS. used are MS. I. O. L. 1676 b, 259, and 1127. MS. 1676 b, now 308, is described in Professor Eggeling's Catalogue of the Sanskrit MSS. in the Library of the India Office, vol. I, p. 58 b. It is written in Devanagari, contains thirty leaves, and is called at the end iti Srikapardina bhâshye uddhritasaram paribhashapatalam. MS. 259, now 309, contains twenty-seven leaves in Devanagarî, and is called at the end iti Kapardisvâmi-bhåshye paribhâshâpatalam. MS. 1127, now 307, in Devanagari, is dated Samvat 1691, Sâka 1556, and contains on 220 leaves portions of Talavrindanivåsin's manual, the Apastambasůtra-prayoga-vritti, and on pp. 75 a-116 a Kapardisvâmin's commentary on Åpastamba's Paribhashapatalam. Burnell mentions another copy of this work in his Classified Index, I, p. 17 b, and he states (Catalogue, p. 24) that, according to tradition, the author was a native of Southern India, called Andappillai, and that tàlavrinda or tålavrinta is a translation of the Tamil panai-kkatu, a very common name for villages among palmyra trees (panai = palmyra, katu = forest).
While preparing my new translation for the Press, I received a printed edition of the text and commentary published by Sri Satyavratasâmasramibhattâ kârya in his valuable Journal, the Usha, beginning in the eighth fasciculus. He gives also a Bengáli translation, and some commentaries in the same language, which have proved useful in certain difficult passages.
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