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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BAUDHAYANA.
nîyas, the more serious offences causing loss of caste. It is probable that by the latter rule he wished to show his standpoint as a southerner. But the most conclusive argument in favour of the southern origin of the Baudhayaniyas is that they, like the Apastambîyas and all other adherents of the Taittirîya schools, are entirely confined to the Dekhan, and are not found among the indigenous subdivisions of the Brâhmans in Central and Northern India. This fact is, if not explicitly stated, at least implied by the passage of the Mahârnava quoted in the Introduction to Åpastamba? It is proved by the present state of things, and by the evidence of the land grants of the southern dynasties, several of which have been made in favour of Baudhayanîyas. Thus we find a grant of Bukkaraya, the well-known ruler of Vigayanagara?, dated Sakasamvat 1276 or 1354-5 A.D., in which a Brahmana, studying the Baudhayanîya-sútra, is mentioned as the donee of a village in Maisûr. Again, in an inscription of Nandivarman Pallavamalla, which its editor, the Rev. Mr. Foulkes, places in the ninth century A.D.", a considerable number of Brahmanas of the Pravakana-sútra are named as recipients of the royal bounty, together with some followers of the Åpastambha school. As we have seen that Baudhayana is called in the Grihya-sútra the Pravakanakâra, it is not doubtful that the Pravakanasatra of this inscription is the Satra of his school. The villages which the grantees received from Nandivarman were situated on the Pâlâr river in the Kittûr districts of the Madras Presidency. Besides, the interesting tradition which asserts that Madhava-Sâyana, the great commentator of the Vedas, was a Baudhayanîya' is another point which may be brought forward as evidence for the location of the school in Southern India. Further,
Sacred Books of the East, vol. ii, p. xxx; see also L. von Schröder, Maitrayantya Samhita, p. xxvii.
Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, XII, 349-351. | Indian Antiquary, VIII, 273-284.
* As all the older inscriptions hitherto published give Åpastambha instead of A pastamba, I am now inclined to consider the former as the original form of the name.
* Burnell, Tanjore Catalogue, p. 20 b, remarks on no. CCXXVI.
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