Āpastamba
historical figure · 3 works · 14 mentions · 27 anchored passages
Apastamba
in the texts
Vīramitrodaya
Dharmasūtra authority whose verses on tithi conjunction are repeatedly cited and debated.
When the *Nigama* verse "Yugma-Agni," which teaches the acceptability of the *paraviddhā*, conflicts with the Āpastamba verse:
" As for the verse of Āpastamba:
Āpastamba says:
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Author of one of the ancient Hindu law treatises.
The further progress of change consists in the further exaltation of the personage who in the passage from Apastamba is called the King’s domestic priest.
Therefore in both worlds he dwells in happiness, rolling like a wheel from one world to the other’ (Apastamba, ii.
So too in the most ancient Hindu law-books, the funeral oblation is confined to male ancestors.
Parāśara Smṛti
Sage listed among composers of dharma texts.
the *dharmas* composed by Āpastamba, and those of Śaṅkha and Likhita;