Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c12.22

c12.22

The *Gṛihya Sūtras* of the Rigveda are also those of Āśvalāyana and Śāṅkhāyana. They introduce us to three *female* sages: Gārgī Vāchaknavī, the familiar figure of the Upanishads; Vadavā Prātitheyī; Sulabhā Maitreyī (cf. *Saulabhāni Brāhmaṇāni* quoted by the scholiast on Pāṇini, iv, 3, 105). Again, the *Śāṅkhāyana-Gṛihya* mentions the following names: Sumantu-Jaimini-Vaiśampāyana-Paila-Sūtra-bhāshya[-Gārgya-Babhru]...; while the *Āśvalāyana* mentions: Sumantu-Jaimini-Vaiśampāyana-Paila-Sūtra-Bhārata-Mahābhārata-Dharmāchāryāḥ. We may notice here the tradition of the Vishṇu Purāṇa which assigns the Atharvaveda compilation to Sumantu, the Sāmaveda to Jaimini, the Yajurveda to Vaiśampāyana, and the Rigveda to Paila.