- one by
Katyayana may be
chronologically the
youngest (~300 BCE). The
Gṛhyasūtras "domestic sūtras" are a
category of
Sanskrit texts prescribing Vedic...
-
first mentioned in the Mānava-
Gṛhyasūtras where they
appear as four
demonic creatures.
Dating for the Mānava-
Gṛhyasūtra is only tentative, but P. V. Kane...
- recension: 15.2
Shankhayana grhyasutra: 2.5.12, 2.7.19;
Khadira grhyasutra: 2.4.21;
Apastambha grhyasutra: 4.10.9-12;
Varaha grhyasutra: 5.26 Ravi Varma(1956)...
-
Shudra or
Shoodra (Sanskrit: Śūdra) is one of the four
varnas of the
Hindu class and
social system in
ancient India. Some
sources translate it into English...
- from
about the
middle of the 1st
millennium BCE, to 16
samskaras in the
Grhyasutra texts from
centuries later. The list of
samskaras in
Hinduism include...
-
Pancharatra text (an
Agama text of Vaishnavism).
Bharadvaja srautasutra and
grhyasutra, a
ritual and
rites of p****age text from
first millennium BCE.
After the...
- of the
Vedic sage Yajnavalkya. In the
Hindu epic
Mahabharata and the
Gṛhyasūtras, however,
Maitreyi is
described as an
Advaita philosopher who
never married...
-
silent about sati,
according to the
historian Altekar. Similarly, the
Grhyasutras, a body of
texts devoted to ritual,
composed at
about the same time as...
- Sāyana
explains the term as a form of "praise, worship, invocation". The
Grhyasutras use puj in the
context of rites, as does
Sanskrit scholar Pāṇini. However...
- Brahmana, Aranyakas,
Upanishads as part of the text, with Shrautasutras,
Grhyasutras and
Pratishakhya attached to the text. In
Shukla Yajurveda, the text...
