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BAUDHẦYANA.
manical learning, which Vasishtha adduces, is given I, 1, 2, 11-12. From the Rig-veda a few expiatory hymns and verses, such as the Aghamarshana and the Taratsamandis, are quoted. The Atharva-veda is not referred to by name, but the existence of Åtharvana schools may be inferred from the mention made of the vows called Siras, II, 8, 14, 2. Among the authorities on the Sacred Law, mentioned in the Dharma-sútra, Katya 1, 2, 3, 46, Maudgalya II, 2, 4, 8, and Aupagandhani II, 2, 3, 33, do not occur in other works of the same class. Harîta, who is mentioned II, 1, 2, 21, and who probably was a teacher of the Maitrầyaniya school, is named by Vasishtha and Apastamba also. The Gautama who is quoted I, 1, 2, 7 and II, 2, 4, 17, is, as has been shown in the Introduction to Gautama, most probably the author of the still existing Institutes of Gautama. To the arguments for the latter view, adduced there, I may add that two other passages of the Dharma-sútra, II, 6, 11, 15 and 26, point to a close connexion between Baudhầyana's and Gautama's works. The former of the two Sutras contains, with the exception of one small clause in the beginning, exactly the same description of the duties of a hermit in the forest as that given by Gautama III, 26-35. The second Satra states, just as Gautama's rule III, 36, that the venerable teacher (âkâryâh) prescribes one order only, that of the householders. The reason given for this opinion differs, however, according to Baudhayana, from that adduced in Gautama's text. The almost literal identity of the first long passage makes it not improbable that Baudhayana borrowed in this instance also from Gautama without noting the source from which he drew. On the other hand, the argument drawn from the fact that the tenth Adhyâya of Prasna III has been taken from Gautama's Sûtra loses its force since, as I have shown above, it is improbable that the third Prasna formed part of Baudha.
· Possibly Kasyapa, whose name occurs in a Sloka, I, 11, 21, 2, may also be an ancient teacher to whom Baudhầyana refers. In the Grihya-sútra a teacher called Saliki is repeatedly quoted, and once, I, 11 (end), his opinion is contrasted with that of Baudhayana and of Akarya, i.e. Baudhayana's teacher. The Grihya-sútra refers also to Atreya, Kâsakritsna, and Bâdari.
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