Jaiminisutra (English spelling)

Japanese: 《Jaimini-sūtra》(英語表記)Jaiminisutra
Jaiminisutra (English spelling)

...He is considered the founder of the Mīmāṃsā school, which focuses on systematic hermeneutics of the rituals of the Vedic scriptures, and is said to be the author of the Mīmāṃsā-sūtra, the fundamental text of this school, but it is thought that it was arranged in its present form about 100 years later. This text is called the Jaimini-sūtra after Jaimini, or the Twelve Chapters because it consists of 12 chapters. A part of its teachings, beginning with "Now the search for dharma (the duties and rituals enjoined in the scriptures) begins," is introduced and criticized under the name of Jaimini in the fundamental text of the sister school, the Vedanta school, the Brahma-sūtra (completed around the first half of the 5th century), along with the teachings of several other scholars, including Bādarayana, who is said to have written the text.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Jaimini-sūtra" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ベーダ聖典の祭事部に関する体系的な解釈学を旨とするミーマーンサー学派の開祖と見なされ,この学派の根本経典《ミーマーンサー・スートラMīmāṃsā‐sūtra》の作者であると伝えられているが,それが現在見られるようなかたちに整えられたのは後100年ころと考えられる。この経典は,ジャイミニの名を冠せられて《ジャイミニ・スートラJaimini‐sūtra》,あるいは,12章より成っているので《十二章篇》とも称せられる。〈さてこれよりダルマ(聖典に命ぜられている義務,祭事)の探求が(開始される)〉で始まるその教説の一部は,姉妹学派であるベーダーンタ学派の根本経典《ブラフマ・スートラ》(5世紀前半ころに完成)の中で,その経典の作者とされるバーダラーヤナなど幾人かの学匠の教説と並んで,ジャイミニの名のもとに紹介され,批判されている。…

※「《Jaimini-sūtra》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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