• The Baudhāyana sūtras (Sanskrit: बौधायन सूत्रस् ) are a group of Vedic Sanskrit texts which cover dharma, daily ritual, mathematics and is one of the oldest...
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  • The Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra (Baudhāyana Śrautasūtra or Baudhāyanaśrautasūtram) is a Late Vedic text dealing with the solemn rituals of the Taittiriya...
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  • which are mathematically the most significant, are those attributed to Baudhayana, Manava, Apastamba and Katyayana. Their language is late Vedic Sanskrit...
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  • water he should eat it as if it were a medicine. — Baudhāyana, Dharmasūtra, II.10.18.1–10 Baudhāyana also makes repeated references to the Sannyasa (ascetic)...
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  • The most important of these texts are the sutras of Apastamba, Gautama, Baudhayana, and Vasistha. These extant texts cite writers and refer opinions of seventeen...
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    Svāhā! —Kapila, Baudhayana Grihya Sutra, 4.16.4 Translators: Jan E. M. Houben, Karel Rijk van Kooij As son of Prahlada: The Baudhayana Dharmasutra mentions...
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  • foreigner who stood outside the varna system and the ritual ambience.The Baudhayana sutras define a mleccha as someone who eats beef or indulges in self-contradictory...
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    of the Brahmanical ideology spread eastwards in post-Vedic times. The Baudhayana Dharmasutra (BDS) 1.1.2.10 (perhaps compiled in the 8th to 6th centuries...
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  • forced to have recourse to Niyoga for inheritance or similar purposes. Baudhāyana and Vasistha say that a widow desiring Niyoga should avoid meat, honey...
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    revered in ancient texts for all four Ashramas (stages) of human life. Baudhayana Dharmasūtra, completed by about 7th century BC, states the following behavioral...
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