Parpola, Jaimini-Paryadhyaya (Jaimini-Sutra-Parisesa) with commentaries of Bhavatrata and Jayanta

This book publishes primary sources on ancient South Asia. The Jaimini-Paryadhyaya (JPA) alias Jaimini-Sutra-Parisesa is a Samavedic text composed in Sanskrit around the sixth century BCE. It was known to have once existed from a few quotations from it in commentarial literature. It was discovered by Asko Parpola in 1966 in a unique miscatalogued manuscript in the Tanjore Maharaja Serfoji's Sarasvati Mahal Library in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, South India. A rather exhaustive decades-long hunt...