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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iv the Sanskrit edition only confirmed my view as to the importance of the subject and as to the necessity of bringing out a carefully prepared edition with necessary marks of punctuation-aids without which commentaries on Vedic literature are not quite intelligible to any but a scholar already conversant with the Vedic texts and with Mímámsic and Ritualistic literature.
Of the two commentaries herein presented, one is that of Kapardisvámin, to which, as the older of the two, precedence is given in this edition. As regards the authorship of the other there is a certain amount of uncertainty. The three manuscripts I have obtained of the commentary agree in attributing the authorship to Haradatta, whereas the Calcutta Edition gives the same commentary as that of Dhúrtasvámin. The matter is rendered still more complex by the fact that the commentary on the last fifteen sútras in all my manuscripts--which do not, in other respects, betray their common origin from any identical proximate source-differs totally from the Calcutta Edition and agrees very closely with the commentary given under the name of Kapardisvámin. This is likely to create a doubt also as to the genuineness of Kapardisvamin's commentary as given in my manuscript; which is, however, set at rest by the fact that a manuscript of a commentary, called Kapardisára, on this section closely agrees with my manuscript of Kapardisvámin's commentary on this as well as the previous portion. From this, it is probable that the Calcutta Edition gives a correct version of the other commentary on the last fifteen sútras, and that my MSS. or their parents have appropriated the corresponding portion from Kapardisvámin's commentary. But, as regards the authorship of the commentary as a whole, I am inclined to think that the Southern MSS. represent a correct tradition for the following reasons:
First: A tradition among the Srautin's of Southern India has it that Rudradatta and Haradatta are names of an