History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.1288

v7.c99.1288

*Mahābhāṣya* of Patañjali (about 150 B. C): (vide under Patañjali), 36, 103, 203, 468n, 469, 542n, 658n-68n, 684n, 698 (on numerals), 820 (derives 'Paurāṇika'), 937n, 963, 985, 1032, 1156 (full of Pūrvamīmāṃsā matters), 1157 (mentions Kāśakṛtsni), 1158, 1203 (on Veda), 1221n (divisions of the four Vedas), 1224n (śabdapramāṇakā vayam), 1236n (on *prakṛti* and *pratyaya*), 1246n ('na' means 'sadṛśa' in some cases), 1252 (śāstra is meant to give definite rules), 1290 (primary meaning to be preferred to secondary), 1321 (on Sattra for one thousand years), 1331n, 1388n, 1395 (date of), 1398 (employs an ungrammatical form in Aviravikanyāya); mentions several men and incidents connected with Kṛṣṇa such as killing Kaṁsa 130n, paper by present author on 'Mahābhāṣya and the bhāṣya of Śabara' 1275n; quoted several times by Śabara who refers to its author as Ācārya and 'abhiyukta' 1275n; remarks that Vedas and their meaning are eternal but the arrangement of words is not eternal and hence arise different Vedic texts like Kāṭhaka, Kālāpaka etc. 1203; 1631n, 1640n (M. included Śakas and Yavanas among śūdras), ed by Kielhorn 1631n