An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c9.22

c9.22

Most of the sūtras of Jaimini's Pūrva-mīmāṃsā-sūtras are expositions of single texts or phrases, and are thus of little interest to the modern reader, but here and there great questions arise which are worthy of notice. For example, the absolute authority of the Veda requires for its establishment the doctrine of its eternity, and that leads in turn to the doctrine of the eternity of sound and the indefeasible connexion between the sound of a word and its meaning.¹