• 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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  • 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 Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra (Baudhāyana Śrautasūtra or Baudhāyanaśrautasūtram) is a Late Vedic text dealing with the solemn rituals of the Taittiriya...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • survived through history, of which the oldest surviving is likely the Baudhayana Shulba Sutra (800-500 BCE), while the one by Katyayana may be chronologically...
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    Geometers by name Aida Aryabhata Ahmes Alhazen Apollonius Archimedes Atiyah Baudhayana Bolyai Brahmagupta Cartan Chern Coxeter Descartes Euclid Euler Gauss Gromov...
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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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  • themselves divided into numerous sub-schools. Among these, the followers of Baudhayana and Apastamba were found all over South India (including Maharashtra)...
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  • Examples include Dharma-sutras (particularly by Gautama, Apastamba, Baudhayana and Vāsiṣṭha) and Dharma-sastras (particularly Manusmṛti, Yājñavalkya...
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    Geometers by name Aida Aryabhata Ahmes Alhazen Apollonius Archimedes Atiyah Baudhayana Bolyai Brahmagupta Cartan Chern Coxeter Descartes Euclid Euler Gauss Gromov...
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    rites of passage text from first millennium BCE. After the Kalpasutra by Baudhayana, these Bharadvaja texts are among the oldest srauta and grhya sutras known...
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    Geometers by name Aida Aryabhata Ahmes Alhazen Apollonius Archimedes Atiyah Baudhayana Bolyai Brahmagupta Cartan Chern Coxeter Descartes Euclid Euler Gauss Gromov...
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    sacrifice. — Apastamba Yajna Paribhasa-sutras 1.1, Translator: M Dhavamony Baudhayana srautasutra is probably the oldest text in the śrautasūtra genre, and...
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    The Sabar people of Odisha have also been mentioned in the Mahabharata. Baudhayana mentions Kalinga as not yet being influenced by Vedic traditions, implying...
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  • comparison to Maitrayaniya shakha of Krishna Yajurveda, the other two being Baudhayana Dharmasutra and Hiranyakesin Dharmasutra. The Apastamba Dharmasutra is...
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    geometers and their main fields of work, chronologically listed, are: Baudhayana (fl. c. 800 BC) – Euclidean geometry Manava (c. 750 BC–690 BC) – Euclidean...
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  • in an aristocratic tribal-polity. The earliest Dharmashastras, such as Baudhayana (~600 BCE) further take up the discussion of statecraft and state-organization...
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    Ancient Apastamba Baudhayana Katyayana Manava Pāṇini Pingala Yajnavalkya Classical Āryabhaṭa I Āryabhaṭa II Bhāskara I Bhāskara II Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri...
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    Jyestha appears early in the Hindu mythology. She first appears in the Baudhayana-grihyasutra (300 to 600 BCE). Many of her images still exist, usually...
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  • Geometers by name Aida Aryabhata Ahmes Alhazen Apollonius Archimedes Atiyah Baudhayana Bolyai Brahmagupta Cartan Chern Coxeter Descartes Euclid Euler Gauss Gromov...
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  • Daivaigya Vallabha, Laghu Jataka, Yoga Yatra, Vivaha Patal Virasena Dhavala Baudhayana Rishi Baudhayana Sutras, Baudhāyana Sulbasūtra, Baudhāyana Dharmasūtra...
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    very good approximations to the square roots of 2 and 3 are given in the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra. Apastamba who was dated around 600 BCE has given a strikingly...
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    Geometers by name Aida Aryabhata Ahmes Alhazen Apollonius Archimedes Atiyah Baudhayana Bolyai Brahmagupta Cartan Chern Coxeter Descartes Euclid Euler Gauss Gromov...
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