The Grihya-Sutras
Subtitle: The Rules of Vedic Domestic Ceremonies (Sacred Books of the East)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: October 26, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780700715268
Subjects: Religions of Indic & Oriental origin; Sacred texts; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies
First sentence: THE Grihya-sutra of Gobhila differs from those of Sankhayana, Asvalayana, Paraskara, Hiranyakesin in one essential point: while these texts presuppose only the same Vedic Samhitas on which also the corresponding Srauta-sutras are based, viz. the Rig-veda-Samhita, the Vagasaneyi-Samhita, and the Taittiriya-Samhita ; the Sutra of Gobhila, on the other hand, presupposes, beside the Samhita of the Sama-veda, another collection of Mantras which evidently was composed expressly with the purpose of being used at Grihya ceremonies: this collection is preserved to us under the title of the Mantra-Brahmana,and it has been edited at Calcutta (1873), with a commentary and Bengali translation by Satyavrata Samasramin.