Sacred Laws of Aryas

Author(s): Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford

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ÂPASTAMBA.
more probable that Baudhâyana and Bhâradvâga, as well as the latter and Âpastamba, were separated by several intervening generations of teachers, who contented themselves with explaining the works of their predecessors. The distance in years between the first and the last of the three Sûtrakâras must, therefore, I think, be measured rather by centuries than by decades1.
As regards the priority of Apastamba to the school of Satyâshâdha Hiranyakesin, there can be no doubt about the correctness of this statement. For either Hiranyakesin himself, or, at least, his immediate successors have appropriated Âpastamba's Dharma-sûtra and have inserted it with slight modifications in their own collection. The alterations consist chiefly in some not very important additions, and in the substitution of more intelligible and more modern expressions for difficult and antiquated words 2. But they do not extend so far as to make the language of the Dharma-sûtra fully agree with that of the other sections of the collection, especially with the Grihya-sûtra. Numerous discrepancies between these two parts are observable. Thus we read in the Hiranyakesi
The subjoined pedigree of the Sûtrakâras of the Black Yagur-veda will perhaps make the above remarks and my interpretation of the statements of Mahadeva and the other authorities mentioned above more intelligible :Khandika, taught the Taittirîya recension of the Black Yagur-veda. (Successors of Khândika, number unknown, down to)
Baudhayana, Pravakanakartâ, i. e. 1st Sûtrakâra, and founder of Baudhâ
yana-karana.
(Successors of Baudhâyana down to fellow-pupil of Bharadvaga, number unknown.) (Successors of Baudhâyana after the schism down to the present day.) Bharadvaga, 2nd Sûtrakâra, and founder of Bhâradvâga-karana.
(Successors of Bhâradvága down to fellow-pupil of Apastamba, number unknown.) (Successors after the schism down to the present day.)
Apastamba, 3rd Sûtrakâra, and founder of A pastamba-karana.
(Successors of Apastamba down to fellow-pupil of Satyâshâdha Hiranyakesin, number
unknown.)
(Successors of Apastamba down to the present day.)
Satyashadha Hiranyakesin, 4th Sûtrakâra, and founder of Hiranyakesi
karana.
(Successors of Satyâshâdha Hiranyakesin down to the present day.)
But to
After the schism of Satyâshâdha Hiranyakesin the pedigree has not been continued, though Mahâdeva asserts that several other Sûtrakâras arose. work it out further would be useless.
* See Appendix II to Part I of my second edition of Âpastamba's Dharmasûtra, p. 117 seqq.
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