He compiled an anthology, entitled the Sutrasamuccaya ("Compendium of Sutras"), consisting of passages from 68 sutras, most of which were Mahayana texts.
Typically, they spend only a few weeks shut away studying the sutras before they rush back to the city.
He did it more or less single-handedly, fired by his love of the language and the culture and aided by a brain that rapidly became an encyclopedia of lineages, sutras, lives of lamas, and the history and ownership of every book he came across.
The earliest sources for the tradition are the Mahayana sutras, scriptures that were first compiled some four centuries after the Buddha's death.
Jaimini, who composed sutras about the 4th century bce, was critical of earlier Mimamsa authors, particularly of one Badari, to whom is attributed the view that the Vedic injunctions are meant to be obeyed without the expectation of benefits for oneself.
Just as the Mimamsa-sutra traditions of Badari's tradition were revived by Prabhakara, a 7th 8th-century scholar, and Jaimini's were defended by Shabara and Kumarila, a 7th 8th-century scholar, Bandrayana's sutras laid the basis for the development of Vedanta philosophy.
