Satapatha Bramhana Part 02

SR No.: 007678
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1885
Total Pages: 2521
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 44 MB

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INTRODUCTION.
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haret: the approximation of these words to the Sloka metre cannot escape attention, and it is only necessary to make rudad bhyah and rudatîm change places in order to obtain a regular Sloka hemistich. In Gobhila the Satras 1, 2, 21-27 represent three hemistichs, which with one exception (na ka sopanatkah kvakit) exactly conform to the laws of the Sloka metre. II, 4, 2 gives also a hemistich by slightly changing the order :
Mahâvrikshan smasanam ka nadis ka vishamani ka'. Somewhat more remote from the original verses is the wording of the Satras I, 6, 8. 9 na pravasann upavased ity åhuh, patnyå vratam bhavatîti ; we have the metrical order in one of the Slokas quoted by Sankhayana (Grihya II, 17): nopavasah pravåse syât patni dhårayate vratam.
The verses which are thus either expressly quoted, or at any rate made use of by the authors of the Grihya-stras, do not seem to be taken from connected metrical works any more than the yagñagathas quoted in the Brahmanas; on the contrary in a later period of literature, when texts similar to Manu's Code were composed, they evidently furnished these texts with some of their materials.
Leaving out of consideration the Khadira-Grihya, which is evidently a recast of the Gobhiliya-Grihya, and the Sutra of Hiranyakesin, which is, at least in part, based on that of Apastamba, we are not in regard to the other Grihya texts in a condition to prove that one of them borrowed from the other. It often happens that single Satras or whole rows of Satras agree so exactly in different texts that this agreement cannot be ascribed to chance; but this does not-80 far at least - enable us to tell which text is to be looked upon as the source of the
* The text has: nadis ka vishamani ka mahavriksbån smasånam ka.
* Cf. Iodische Studien, XV, 11. We do not mean to imply anything us to the metrical portions of other Satra texts than the Gnihya-stras. As regards some verses quoted in the Bandhayana-Dharma-satra, Prof. Bühler (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xiv, p. xli) has shown that they are actually borrowed from a metrical treatise on the Sacred Law.
Cf. Prof. Bühler's remarks, Sacred Books of the East, vol. ii, p. xxiii.
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