A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Bhiksusutras
This page describes Bhiksusutras which is located on page 298 of the first volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Bhiksusutras” according to 4 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Bhagavadgita [by Kashinath Trimbak Telang]
In Sutra 110 of the third Pada of the fourth Adhyaya of Panini's Sutras, a Parasharya is mentioned as the author of a Bhikshu-sutra. Who is this Parasharya, and what the Bhikshu-sutra? Unluckily Patanjali gives us no information on this head, nor does the Kashika Vritti. But a note of Professor Taranatha Tarkavacaspati, of Calcutta, says that Parasharya is Vyasa, and the Bhikshu-sutra is the Vedanta-sutra. If this is correct, the Vedanta-sutras go very far indeed into antiquity....
Read full contents: Introduction to Bhagavadgita
Preceptors of Advaita [by T. M. P. Mahadevan]
This sutra is known by several names, such as Vyasa-sutra, Brahma-sutra, Bhikshu-sutra and Vedanta-sutra. This consists of four adhyayas or sections and there are 555 sutras. Sutras are brief and significant statements, that could be expanded and expounded by gurus and scholars to their disciples. Suchanat sutram. The word ‘sutra’ also means a thread used to string flowers into a garland....
Read full contents: 4. Vedavyasa
Natyashastra (English) [by Bharata-muni]
The alternative name of the Brahma-sutra is the Bhikshu-sutra. (* 32) B.’s reading in translation is as follows: Similarly Prakrit should be assigned to Shaiva teachers, lunatics, children, persons possessed of spirits of lower order, women, persons of low birth and hermaphrodites (B.XVII.37). (* 33) In a queen’s role a woman may sometimes speak Sanskrit See 38-39 below. The parivrajika in the Malavi. speaks Sanskrit. (* 34) salinga....
Read full contents: Chapter XVIII - Rules on the use of Languages (bhasha)
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