Aparajitaprucchha

SR No.: 008438
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: B Bhattacharya
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Total Pages: 810
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Culture, & Art
File Size: 12 MB

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S. E., with a westernly slopc, free has a rise on the S., S. W., W. and N. W., and a fall towards the other directions; while age has a central rise with a falling off in ali directions.
Right from the Vedic times, the East, North-East, and North are considered the most desirable directions towards which a site (aits) should have a slope. मनु and other स्मृति का(S, धर्मसूत्रः and गृह्यसूत्रs of गोभिल,
747ft, rigt, ater and 379199 testify to the above specification of 932704 with respect to its (31. Thus there is a unanimity of opinion as regards the desirability of suci an aspect of the site so far as this particular generalization is concerned. There is, however, an excep. tion to the above consensus of opinion in the 1947 of 3 8a who sounds a different note.
apedia strikes a different keynote in the matter of 137. He prescribes ( vide footnote 1) S., S. W. and W. as the desirable points for the slopes of building sites, etc. to run to; this view, though diametrically opposed to the general opinion, as stated above, in the reverse direction has a significance all its own. Tiegata is full of irreconcilable divergencies in very many specifications, recipes, formulas, etc. but if rightly scanncd in the light of physical, social and political conditions, their inner underlying spirit can be revealed to us in its true perspective. 311967* seems to be an outstanding personality in this respect. He has not cared for the traditional principle which his co-workers in the same field accepted either with or without reason as they held the general view dictated by occupants of central Aryan tracts who were naturally accustoined to a reverse watcrshed as will be evident from the big rivers in China, Eastern Siberia, etc. His view was dictated by his own surrounding environments.
Max-Muller in his pouas with introductory notices fixes 31175 as the place where araraa flourished. That view is further corroborated by his prescription of sa according to which he seems to have flourished in a tract, with the नर्बदा and तापा running in the west and गोदावरी, महानदी, etc., flowing southwards.
The elements that are dealt with in the above consideration of a of areT have reference to only the slope and the direction in general in which it runs. Rh7a5, on the other hand, introduces a third and a unique element in this consideration and adduces, besides, extracts
Footnote 1:—The 7th 937, 17th 13-TETTA JE 2197-22 9 augu प्रवणमगारावकाशमुद्धत्य पालशेन शमोमयेन योदइनैतामेव दिशमुत्तरयोदूइति ॥१॥
Commentary on the above 7-1aaf4a gaasure falfa gt912#ra: 1 9 gott प्रत्यक् प्रवणो भवति । दक्षिगाप्रतीच्योरन्तराले निम्रो भवति। एवंविधे देशेगारं कर्तव्यमित्यर्थः ।...
From the Ādastambiya Grihyasūtra, with extracts from the commentaries of Hardatta and Sudars'anarya (Urara); Edited by Dr. M. Winternitz, under the patronage of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna, 1887.