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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BAUDHÂYANA.
Satyâshâdha Hiranyakesin. The same order is observed in the distribution of the offerings at the Sarpabali, described in the Grihya-sätra!, where the following teachers of the Yagurveda are specially named, viz. Vaisampayana, Phulingu, Tittiri, Ukha, Aukhya, Åtreya the author of the Pada-text, Kaundinya the author of the commentary, Kanva Baudhâyana the author of the Pravakana, Åpastamba the author of the Satra, and Satyashâdha Hiranyakesin. Neither of these two passages belongs to Baudhâyana. They are both clearly interpolations. But they show that Mahadeva's statement, which makes Baudhayana the first expounder of the Kalpa among the Taittirîyavedins, agrees with the tradition of the Baudhayanîyas themselves. For not only the place allotted to Baudhayana's name, but still more the title Pravakanakâra which he receives, show that the followers of his school placed him before and above all other teachers of the ritual. The term pravakana, which literally means 'proclaiming or recitation,'has frequently the technical sense of oral instruction, and is applied both to the traditional lore contained in the Brâhmanas, and to the more systematic teaching of the Angas 2. If, therefore, a teacher is called the author of the Pravakana of a Sakhâ, that can only mean that he is something more than a common Satrakâra, and is considered to be the originator of the whole system of instruction among its followers. The epithet Kanva, which Baudhayana receives in both the passages quoted above, indicates that he belonged to the Vedic Gotra of the Kanvas. It deserves to be noted that Govindasvâmin, too, on I, 3, 5, 13, explains the name Baudhâyana by Kanvayana S.
1 Baudhâyana Grihya-sätra IV, 8 (fol. 39, B. 5, Elph. Coll.copy, no. 5), pa graua: Artariat (?) asiaruara groga fafara carieratबेयाय पदकाराय कोण्डिन्याय वृनिकाराय काखाय बोधायनाय प्रवचनकारायापस्तवाय सूत्रकाराय सत्याषाढाय हिरण्यकेशाय (2) आचार्येभ्य कावरेजोभ्यो
using gawatta: eguration See also Weber, Hist. Ind. Lit., p. 91 note; Max Müller, Hist. Anc. Sansk. Lit., p. 223; Burnell, Catalogue of a Collection of Sanskrit MSS., p. 14, no. LIII.
* See Max Müller, Hist. Anc. Sansk. Lit., p. 109. * The discovery that Baudhayana bore also the name Kânva makes it possible
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