Apastamba was a 4th century B.C. E writer, wise man, and a commentator.
Apastamba is most known for his work with the Kalpa Sutra form, a kind of book that has three key elements:
- directions for Vedic rituals (Shrauta Sutras),
- household rites (Grhya Sutras),
- and appropriate human conduct (Kalpa Sutras) (Dharma Sutras).
Along with Baudhayana and Hiranyakeshin, he is one of three writers who authored full Kalpa Sutras in all three sections.
- The Taittiriya school of the Black Yajur Veda was where all three of these guys came from.
- Apastamba's Dharma Sutra is very important since it is regarded as one of the primary sources for Manu's law system.
- Even in the early twentieth century, this code was a significant legal document since India's British rulers regarded it as a source of "traditional" Hindu law.
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