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Shiva Sutras are a collection of seventy seven aphorisms that form the foundation of the tradition of spiritual mysticism known as Kashmir Shaivism.They are attributed to the sage Vasugupta of the 9th century C.E. [1] [2] [3]
'string, thread') [1] in Indian literary traditions refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a condensed manual or text. Sutras are a genre of ancient and medieval Indian texts found in Hinduism , Buddhism and Jainism .
[1] [2] Each tradition has a long list of Hindu texts, with subgenre based on syncretization of ideas from Samkhya, Nyaya, Yoga, Vedanta and other schools of Hindu philosophy. [3] [4] [5] Of these some called Sruti are broadly considered as core scriptures of Hinduism, but beyond the Sruti, the list of scriptures vary by the scholar. [6]
It is the oldest Hindu treatise on prosody to have survived into the modern era. [15] [16] This text is structured in 8 books, with a cumulative total of 310 sutras. [74] It is a collection of aphorisms predominantly focused on the art of poetic metres, and presents some mathematics in the service of music. [72] [75]
The Brahma Sūtras consist of 555 aphorisms or sūtras, in four chapters (adhyāya), with each chapter divided into four parts (pāda). [10] Each part is further subdivided into sections called Adhikaraņas with sutras. [10] Some scholars, such as Francis Clooney, call the Adhikaraņas as "case studies" with a defined hermeneutic process. [30] [31]
It is the foundational text of the Nyaya School of Hindu Philosophy. The date when the text was composed, and the biography of its author is unknown. It is estimated that the text was composed between 6th-century BCE and 2nd-century CE. [2] Zimmer (2013) has said that the text may have been composed by more than one author, over a period of ...
A Sutra means "string, thread", [19] and in Indian literary traditions, it also refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a condensed manual or text. [20] [21] Each sutra is like a theorem distilled into few words or syllables, around which "teachings of ritual, philosophy, grammar or any field of knowledge" can be woven.
Some of the major Hindu texts include the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Itihasa. Scholars hesitate in defining the term "Hindu scriptures" given the diverse nature of Hinduism, [1] [2] but many list the Agamas as Hindu scriptures, [1] [2] [3] and Dominic Goodall includes Bhagavata Purana and Yajnavalkya Smriti in the list of Hindu scriptures ...