Devta Murtiprakaranam tatha Rupmandanam

Author(s): Upendramohan Sankhyatirtha
Publisher: Metropolitan Printing and Publishing House Limited

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The Sulva-sutras give directions for construction of the fire Altars, the Vedis and the Citis etc.
From the root cin cayane, to collect
the three most important terms :—
are derived,
a. Citi-Sacrificial altars, for gathering the holy fire agnicayana, agnyādhāna.
b. Cita-The funeral pyre for the cremation of dead bodies. Caitya-Monuments enclosing post-cremation human remains, sacred relics-the Buddhadhatu, etc.
C.
in these cases it can be proved that these works are indeed so interconnected that, to a certain extent, they can be regarded as the four volumes of a uniform work. It is possible that Baudhayana and Apastamba were actually the authors of complete Kalpasūtras comprising all the four kinds of texts. But even if they were not the actual authors, at all events, the Srauta, Grhya, Dharma and Sulvasutras of Baudhayana and Apastamba schools are works composed on a uniform plan, of these two schools of the Yajurveda....
* The Baudhayana-Sulvasūtra has been edited and translated by G. Thibaut in the "Pandit", Vols. IXff; the Apastambiya-Sulvasutra ed. and translated into German by Albert Bürk. ZDMG., Vols. 55, 56, 1901-2.*"
P. 278. "The Srauta, Grhya and Sulvasutras of the Manava school", and the Kathaka Gṛhyasutra, which is related to the Manava-Gṛhyasūtra, come under the Maitrayani-samhita...
The Manava-Srautasutra is perhaps the oldest Śrautasutra. Garbe has shown that it is certainly older than Apastamba who refers to it.
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P. 278-79. "To the White Yajurveda belong a Katyayana-Srauta sutra, a Pāraskara Grhyasūtra and a Katyāyana-Sulva-sutra.*
A Parisista to this (Katiyam Sulvapariśiştam)-ed. by G. Thibaut in "Pandit", N. S., Vol. 4.*"
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P. 271. "Ritual (Kalpa), which constitutes the chief contents of the Brahmanas, is...the first Vedänga to receive systematic treatment special manuals, the so called Kalpasūtras. They arose out of the need for compiling the rules for the sacrificial ritual in a shorter, more manageable and connected form for the practical purposes of the priests."
P. 275. "The Sulvasutras, which are directly attached to the Srautasūtras, should be mentioned in connection with these Kalpasūtras. They