- one by
Katyayana may be
chronologically the
youngest (~300 BCE). The
Gṛhyasūtras "domestic sūtras" are a
category of
Sanskrit texts prescribing Vedic...
-
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...
-
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...
- were
incorporated in the
Gṛhyasūtras (literally, homely; also
called Laukika or po****r,
states Lubin). However, the
Gṛhyasūtras also
added many new non-Śrauta...
- of
these rites of p****age are
found in the
numerous Dharmasutras and
Grhyasutras from the 1st
millennium BCE. Many of
these rites of p****age
include formal...
- In the
Asvalayana Gṛhyasūtra, the
daughter of the sage
Maitri is
referred to as
Sulabha Maitreyi and is
mentioned in the
Gṛhyasūtras with
several other...
- the
Brahmanams and the Srauta-sutras. It is also
cited in a
number of
grhyasutras,
mostly in
connection with the
upanayana ceremony in
which it has a significant...
-
stratum of
Vedic literature,
comprising the bulk of the Śrautasūtras and
Gṛhyasūtras and some Upaniṣads such as the Kaṭha Upaniṣad and Maitrāyaṇiya Upaniṣad...
- so-called), as well as its ****ociated Brahmana, Aranyakas, Shrautasutras,
Grhyasutras and Upanishads. In
traditional Hindu society affiliation with a specific...
- 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...
