Apstambparibhasha Sutram

SR No.: 020068
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A Mahadev Shastri
Publisher: Government of Mysore
Publication Year: 1893
Total Pages: 122
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 6 MB

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PREFACE.
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The 24th praśna of the A'pastamba-Kalpasútra is divided into three sections, one of which being known by such names as Yajna-Paribháshá-sútra or simply Paribháshásútra, Sámánya-sútra, and Nyáya-sútra. As the terms imply, the subject-matter of the section is made up some general rules of a technical character applicable to all Vedic sacrificial rites (yajñas), S'ranta and Grihya, public and domestic, great and small. Almost every Vedic Kalpasútra devotes a section to this subject, only the place assigned to it being different in different sútras. In the S'ánk háyana-sútra, for instance, it is placed at the commencement of the S'rauta section, whereas in the A'pastamba-Sútra it is placed at the close of the Srauta and immediately before the Grihya section.
I felt a necessity for an edition of the A'pastambaParibháshá-sútra while editing Sudarśanáchárya's commentary on the A'pastamba-Grihya-sútra, in which references to this section occur every now and then.
At first, not a single copy of any commentary on the Paribháshá-sútra was to be found in the libraries of the Mysore city. Further search, however, put me in possession of complete copies of the section with two commentaries thereon. The importance of the section with reference to the Grihya-sútra I was cditing, as well as the excellence and rarity of the two commentaries thereon without which the meaning of the sútras could hardly be made out, induced me to publish it along with, or as a sequel to, the Grihya-sútra. When about half the work had been printed I received Prof. Max Müller's translation of the section published in Vol. XXX of Sacred Books of the East. In the Introduction to the translation he casually made mention of an edition of the Sanskrit Text with a commentary published in the Ushá, a Sanskrit monthly edited by Satyavrata Sámaśramin of Calcutta. A close examination of the translation and of