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# Apastambagrihyasutra 4.11.16

Āpastambagṛhyasūtra 4.11.16

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.11.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.apastamba.4.11.16)

vārkṣo daṇḍa ityavarṇasaṃyogenaika upadiśanti \16\

> The staff of a Brâhmana is made of Palâsa wood, that of a Râganya of a branch of the Nyagrodha tree, so that the downward-turned end (of the branch) forms the tip (of the staff), that of a Vaisya of Bâdara or Udumbara wood.  
> — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30)

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## Translations (1)

- [The Grihya-sûtras, Part II (SBE 30)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.apastamba~en-oldenberg.4.11.16) — Hermann Oldenberg 1892, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Anākulā, with Sudarśanārya's Tātparyadarśana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.apastamba!haradatta.175.6) — Haradatta (dharmasūtra commentator) & Sudarśanārya, Sanskrit
- [Gṛhyatātparyadarśana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.apastamba!sudarsanacarya) — Sudarśanācārya, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (3)

- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v1.c6.s7.1) — P. V. Kane, English
- [Hiraṇyakeśiśrautasūtra (ed. Kāśīnāthaśāstrī Āgāśe, Ānandāśrama 1907, with Mahādeva's Vaijayantī)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.hiranyakesi*agase.24.1.69) — Sanskrit
- [Saṃskāraratnamālā (Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.samskara.samskararatnamala.12.p3.1) — Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka 1700, Sanskrit

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