The Grhya-sutra of Paraskara, which belongs to the White Yajurveda and forms an appendix to Katyayana’s Srautasutra has been edited, with a German translation, by the ‘scholar who was the first to make a Grhya text accessible to orientalists and to begin to grapple with the first and most serious difficulties that beset its interpretation, and who has continued since to do more than anyone else towards elucidating that important branch of Vedic literature. It would be very unbecoming if any one engaged in the study of Grhya texts, not to acknowledge most warmly the debt of gratitude which he owes to Professor Stenzler. At the same time the respect due to the veteran editor and interpreter of Asvalayana and Paraskara not only allows, but requires that one who proposes to himself the same task at which Prof. Stenzler has worked with so much learning, should state as clearly as possible what that distinguished scholar has left for others to do, and why one who prepares an English translation of Paraskara has a very different task from merely translating into English the German translation of Prof. Stenzler….
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Hermann Oldenberg
Hermann Oldenberg (1854-1920) is considered as one of the greatest Indologists of Germany. After studying classical and Indian philology in Gottingen and Berlin, he became University Professor at Kiel and Berlin. He visited India in 1912-13. His contributions to Vedic and Buddhistic studies are vast. He translated the Dipavamsa, Rgveda and Grhyasutras into German. Of his many books like Buddha, sein Leben, seine Lehre, seine Gemeinde, Die Lehre der Upanischaden und die Anfange des Buddhismus, Die Literature des alten Indiens, among others, Die Religion des Veda (1894) is his most outstanding and oft-quoted work.
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