Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

I propose on this occasion to give a brief outline of tho history of the Mimansa of the contents of the Purva-mlmaRssutra of the Sanskrit literature on the Mlmafisa of the contribtion of the Mimansa to the thought and philosophy of India of is rtules of textual interpretation and their application to the Dharmasastra of the necessity of codifying the Hindu Law and last though not the l [...] This book deals with the subject of Uha; when appling the principle of Atidesa certain alterations and adaptations are necessary in the case of mantras samans and sarhskaras ; the various details of the Agnihotra have Apurva as the motive of their performance ; it is the result (apurva) of the sacrificial act that is principal and not the deity and therefore it is not the deity that is the mo [...] the plural stands for three in the absence of anything to the contrary ; the time place and the priests are to be the same in the case of the principal rites Agneya and others ; examples of arthakarma and pratpattikarma ; adhana ( consecration of fires in spring summer autumn according to caste ) is to be done only once and not repeated with each isti pasuyaga somayaga &c.; the utensils o [...] A few words must be said about the commentatators of the sutras and about some of the important Literature of the workg on the MimafiBa> This is not the plaoe to system. [...] A ms of the Brhati is in the possession of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and in the colophons in that ms.