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BAUDHẦYANA.
Baudhâyana's Satras have clearly received considerable additions from later hands.
According to the researches of Dr. A. Burnell", whose long residence in Southern India and intimate acquaintance with its Brâhmanical libraries have made him the first authority on the literature of the schools of the Taittirîya-veda, the Satras of Baudhayana consist of six sections, viz. 1. the Srauta-sútras, probably in nineteen Prasnas; 2. The Karmânta-sûtra in twenty Adhyâyas; 3. The Dvaidha-sûtra in four Prasnas ; 4. The Grihya-sútra in four Prasnas; 5. The Dharma-sútra in four Prasnas; 6. The Sulva-sútra in three Adhyâyas. The results of the search for Sanskrit MSS. in other parts of India, and especially in Western India, do not differ materially from those obtained by Dr. Burnell. The Grihya-stra, which in Western India occasionally bears the title Smärta-sútra”, contains, however, nine instead of four Prasnas. The MSS. of the Baudhầyana-sâtras, which contain the text alone, are all incomplete, mostly very corrupt and in bad order, and rarely give more than a small number of Prasnas on detached subjects. The copies in which the text is accompanied by a commentary are in a better condition. Thus the Kalpavivarana of Bhavasvâmin 3 extends over the whole of the Srauta-sútra, and over the Karmânta and the Dvaidhasútras. It shows the proper sequence of the Prasnas on Srauta sacrifices, and that probably the Karmânta and the Dvaidha immediately followed the Srauta-sûtra. But there is no hint in the MSS. or in the commentaries how the Grihya, Dharma, and Sulva-sútras were originally placed. With respect to these sections, it is only possible to judge from the analogy of the other extant sets of Kalpa-sútras
See Burnell, Catalogue of a Collection of Sanskrit MS., pp. 24-26, 28, 3435, and Tanjore Catalogue, pp. 18a-20b, and especially his remarks at pp. 18b and 20 a.
This title is found in the best copy known to me, Elphinstone College Col. lection of 1867-68, Class B. I, no. 5, which has been prepared from the MS. of Mr. Limaye at Ashte. The other copies of the work, found in Western India, e. g. no. 4 of the same collection and my own copy, are in a bad state, as they are derived from a MS. the leaves of which were out of order.
3 Burnell, Catalogue of a Collection of Sanskrit MSS., no. LXXXVIII, and Tanjore Catalogue, no. CXVII.
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