Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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INTRODUCTION.
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and from internal evidence. On these grounds it may be shown that the order, adopted by Dr. Burnell, is probably the correct one. For the beginning of the Grihya-satra? shows by its wording that it was not a separate treatise, but was immediately connected with some preceding Prasna The analogy of the collections of the Åpastambiyas, the Hairanyakesas, the Kathas, and other schools permits us to infer that it stood after the Srauta-sútra. It is further clear that, in its turn, it was succeeded by the Dharmasútra. For two passages of the latter work, I, 2, 3, 15, and II, 8, 15, 9, clearly contain references to the Grihyasatra. In the former, the author gives the rule regarding the length of the staff to be carried by a student, as well as the general principle that the staff must be cut from a tree fit for sacrificial purposes. With respect to the latter clause he adds that the details have been given above.' As the Dharma-sätra contains nothing more on this subject, it follows that the expression 'above' must refer to Grihyasutra II, 7, where the usual detailed rules regarding the employment of particular woods for the several varnas are given. In the second passage Baudhayana says that the rules for the performance of funeral sacrifices have been fully explained in the section on the Ashtakâhoma, which occurs Grihya-sútra II, 17-18. It is, therefore, perfectly certain that Baudhầyana, just like Åpastamba, placed the Prasnas on the Sacred Law after those on the domestic ceremonies, and that the Dharma-sûtra was not a separate work. Under these circumstances it becomes highly probable that the Sulva-sutra formed, as is the case in other sets of Kalpa-sâtras, the conclusion of the whole. Thus the only treatise, whose position remains doubtful, is the Pravarakhanda, the list of the Brâhmanical gotras and of their deified ancestors. Possibly it may have stood at the end of the Srauta-sûtra.
* According to the Elph. Coll. MS., Cl. I, B. 5, and my copy, it runs thus: ययो रतडुतः प्रहुत पाहुतः शूलगवो बलिहरणं प्रत्यवरोहणमष्टकाहोम इति सन पाकयज्ञसँस्था इति ॥१॥ ता अनुष्याख्यास्यामः ॥२॥
* Burnell, Catalogue of a Collection of Sanskrit MSS., no. CXVIII.
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