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.
The best-known codification of this framework is in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, about 1,500 to 2,000 years old, although the concept is much older than that.
On the other hand, we read Buddhist sutra about the description of heaven and the wisdom of Buddhism.
Gandavyuha is the story told in the final chapter of the Avatamsaka Sutra about Sudhana's tireless wandering in search of the Highest Perfect Wisdom.
Ayurvedic medicine doctor Mark Nasralla* of the Hall Health and Longevity Center in Venice, California shared this yoga sutra about yoga postures, or asanas, being "steady pleasantness" and I think this says it best.
The systems of the Six Schools (Saddarshana) of orthodox Hindu philosophy were formulated in terse sutras from about the beginning of the Common Era through the period of the Gupta empire (320 540).
She added, "The Kama Sutra is about pleasure in a much broader sense -- good food and good drink, wearing beautiful silk clothing, going on picnics, listening to good music".
By Kelly Stout December 16, 2010 To readers unimpressed with the Google eBookstore's ancient sutras offerings (search for "sutras" and you get primarily books about yoga), the British Library has an antidote: the Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest (known) printed and dated text, from 868 A.D., which the library has recently digitized and put online.
To readers unimpressed with the Google eBookstore's ancient sutras offerings (search for "sutras" and you get primarily books about yoga), the British Library has an antidote: the Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest (known) printed and dated text, from 868 A.D., which the library has recently digitized and put online.
Gautama's sutras were commented upon about 400 ce by Vatsayana, who replied to the Buddhist doctrines, especially to some varieties of Shunyavada skepticism.
"It was like reading bread, or grass," she writes about the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
