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मुनिभाषिते
- सात्त्विके - ईश्वर-संहिता, भारद्वाज-संहिता, जयोत्तरम् …
- राजसे - सनत्कुमार-संहिता, वैखानसागमाः केचित्
- तामसे - तत्त्व-सङ्ग्रह-संहिता
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प्राचीनता
नारायणीयम्
Meanwhile the 85 See Schreiner (1997a: 1) for these dates. According to Oberlies (1997: 86), the oldest sections of the Nārāyaṇīya (chapters 321-326) most likely belong to the period 200-300 CE. Hiltebeitel (2006), it should be noted, rejects these arguments and favours substantially earlier dates for the Nārāyaṇīya, and indeed the MBh as a whole.
रत्न-त्रयम्
In light of this, assigning these texts en bloc to one particular geographic region, or to one particular historical period, especially on the basis of a single, isolated passage or chapter, is surely a mistake. These are clearly not homogeneous, singly authored works, and it is hardly possible to retrieve the “original” Saṃhitās from the versions which have come down to us.
- Leach
previous scholarship on this subject which, as recently as 1994, favoured the much earlier date of c. 500 CE for the composition of the JS, SS and PauṣS (Matsubara 1994: 34). The allocation of this earlier date was largely based on the assumption that the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā, which itself refers to the JS and the SS, was known to the Kashmirian author Bhagavadutpala – an assumption which Sanderson (2001: 35-8) convincingly argues is unwarranted.
स्थानम्
K. V. Soundara Rajan (1981), in a useful study of the JS’s 20th paṭala, argues that this chapter displays a knowledge of both Northern and Southern temple styles, and that the JS as a whole can therefore be assigned to Central India or the Upper Deccan, where both architectural forms were in concurrent use from an early period.
पारमेश्वर-संहिता
The PārS incorporates passages from the *Nārāyaṇīya * section of the Mahābhārata, the Ahirbudhnyasaṃhitā, and the *Pādmasaṃhitā *(PādS)34 among others, and its author, or “compiler” as Rastelli proposes, clearly also had a close knowledge of each of the “three jewels”.
प्रामाण्यानुमानानि
हयशीर्षपाञ्चरात्रे जैमिनेर् हैतुकत्वोक्त्या स न सात्त्विको भति -
इदं न हेतुवादिभ्यो वक्तव्यं नास्तिकाग्रतः [अग्रतः यतः ख्, ग्] ॥
जैमिनिः सुगतश्चैव नास्तिको नग्न एव च ।
कपिलश्चाक्षपादश्च षडेते हेतुवादिनः ॥ २ ॥