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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.org
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
BANSKAIT MANUSCRIPTS
1651
Dr. Burnell observes thus on page 20 of his Catalogue :
"The Baudhấyanasūtra is very simple in its form ; a comparison between the Baudhāyana and Āpastamba Sulbasūtras shows very conclusively that the growth of the Sūtra style was gradual, and that the most artistic Sūtras are the latest of the period when that style prevailed.
"Unfortunately Mss. of the Baudhãyana Sūtras and com. mentaries are rare and all incomplete. Some such have been described by me already ("Catalogue," pp. 24 ffg.) and for others see "Noticos,” ii. pp. 184, 180, and 270. [See pp 184 fifg. of Bühler's Gujarat Catalogue also and pp. 8-10 of Keilhorn's Catalogue of the Mss. in the southern division of the Bombay Presidency). The Gịhya section is, perhaps, not to be found in S. India, in good Mss. During many years' search, I have been unable to meet with a Ms. that could be batisfactorily identified, but only with fragments of questionable authenticity. The reason of this is, that Vedic rites are now very rarely performed except in a most perfunctory manner, and that the few priests who even profess to know anything of them profess to perform rites according to rituals of which they are ignorant, in order to inorease their gains. Thus the Āpastamba ritual with a few arbitrary changer serves for the Baudhāyana, Bhäradvāja, etc., rituals, which do not roally exist.
"There are several commentaries on the Baudhāvanastras (Weber, Literaturgeschichte, P. 111) by Bhavasvámin (see above), Anantadeva, Navahasta, Sega, Dvārakānátha, and Siyana. The only Ms. of the last as yet discovered is men. tioned by Keilhorn (Catalogue of M88. in the southern part of Bombay Presidency, p. 8); it is of great interest, as Sāyapa
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