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Mīmāṃsāsūtra

Text Type

• Treatise
  A type of text

References

• Maheśachandra (ed.) (1873, 1889), The aphorisms of the Mimāṃsa by Jaimini. With the commentary of Śavara-svāmin. Calcutta: The Asiatic Society of Bengal.
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Texts

• Śābarabhāṣya
  The Śābarabhāṣya (a.k.a. Mīmāṃsāsūtrabhāṣya) is the earliest extant commentary on Jaimini's Mīmāṃsāsūtra. It is one of the foundational texts of the indigenous ritual hermeneutics tradition (mīmāṃs...

Authors

• Jaimini
  According to the tradition, Jaimini was a student of Bādarāyaṇa, the author of the Brahmasūtra. Several works are attributed to Jaimini.

Linguistic Traditions

• Mīmāṃsā
  Mīmāṃsā is the native tradition of Vedic exegesis. It not only explains difficult Vedic passages but also, more importantly, provides general rules of interpretation. The foundational t...