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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is then continued by forty-nine more names-all of them formed by the addition of 'putra' (son) to the mother's name-which, it appears, we are to supply in the former list. According to Professor Max Müller', 'Sâmgîvî-putra seems to have united two lines of teachers.' That this must have been the case, cannot be doubted, provided, of course, that the vamsas are trustworthy 2. Nay, I should even be inclined to assign to the time of Sâmgîvî-putra the final adjustment of the ritual and its dogmatic exposition such as we find them in the Shashtipatha (and the first eighteen adhyâyas of the Vagasaneyi-samhitâ), and consequently the first redaction of that part of the Satapatha. Not that all the matter contained in the latter part of the work must necessarily be more modern. There can, on the contrary, be little doubt that much of it is quite as old as anything in the earlier books; and of the Madhukânda, which forms part of the Brihad-âranyaka in the last book, we know at any rate, from a reference to the Madhu-brâhmana in the fourth kânda, that some such tract existed at that time. But such matter as, for some reason or other, was not included in the systematic exposition of the ceremonial, would naturally be in a less settled condition and more liable to modifications and additions.
SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
According to the two lists, Sâmgîvî-putra is removed from Sândilya by six intermediate teachers, the three older3 of whom are referred to in kândas 6-9; and from Yâgña
1 History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 437.
* Professor Weber, Ind. Stud. II, 201 note, expresses his conviction that 'the vamsas are, on the whole, quite authentic; though they do not of course belong to the text, but are later additions; judging from the great number of names, some vamsas must have been added at a very late time.' It seems to me, however, that if the vamsas are at all authentic-and I see no reason for doubt as far as the two lists above referred to are concerned-we have rather to assume that the lists were kept from early times and gradually added to. On the other hand, little can be made of the two vamsas at the end of the Madhu and Yagnavalkîya kândas. They look rather like attempts-and very unsuc cessful ones—at throwing several independent lists into one.
Viz., Vâtsya IX, 5, 1, 62; Vâmakakshâyana VII, 1, 2, 11; Mâhitthi VI, 2, 2, 10; VIII, 6, 1, 16 seq.; IX, 5, 1, 57. Not mentioned are Kautsa, Mândavya, and Mândûkâyani. A Mândavya occurs in the twelfth book of the Mahâbhârata, as a contemporary of Ganaka and Yâgñavalkya.
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