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| The Samhita of the Taittiriyas is available and the oldest commentary on it is that of Bhattabhaskara Misra.<ref name=":13" /> | | The Samhita of the Taittiriyas is available and the oldest commentary on it is that of Bhattabhaskara Misra.<ref name=":13" /> |
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| + | Patanjali says that the Kathaka literature was read in every villages. Patanjali says that the Katha literature is very vast. The Katha literature The Kathaka Sathhita is available, |
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| + | It has five Khandas which are called Ithimika, Madhyamika^ |
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| + | QramiM, Yajyanuvakya and ASvamedhagrantha. The tSthSnakas |
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| + | are its subdivisions. The total number of the Sthanakas is 4o, of |
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| + | the anuvacanas 13, of the Anuvakas 843 and of the Manias 3093. |
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| + | The Kathaka- Brahmana is not available in its entirety. Only |
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| + | fragments of it have been edited and published. The existence |
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| + | of a KS|haka Aranyaka is also argued. It is probable that the |
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| + | Ka|has may also have had tlieir parallel Aranyaka which |
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| + | contained kindred matter. The well-known Kafha-Upanisad |
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| + | belongs to this Sakha. The Kathaka Grhya-sutra is available. |
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| + | This Grhya-sutra bears different names i.e. Kathaka-Grhya-sutra t |
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| + | Caraka-Grhya-sutra and Laugaks!*Grhya-sutra. It seems quite |
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| + | possible that because these names belong to the Caiaka-group of |
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| + | the Yajurvedic schools and they have no separate Grhya-sutras, |
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| + | so they called this Grhyasutra by various names. Laugaksi may |
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| + | be a follower of the Katha school and he composed a Grhya- |
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| + | sutra for the Kathaka Sakha. |
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| ===Organization=== | | ===Organization=== |
| All about Hinduism - Swami Sivananda | | All about Hinduism - Swami Sivananda |