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Jaimini Upadeśa Sūtrāṇi
जैमिनि उपदेशसूत्राणि
Attributed to Maharṣi Jaimini (traditional) · Date genuinely uncertain — scholarship treats the sūtras’ age as unsettled · jataka
On the dating: Identity with the Mīmāṃsā-sūtra Jaimini is not established, and no critical dating of the Upadeśa Sūtras commands consensus; the text is known through a long commentarial transmission. We report the date as uncertain rather than picking a century.
What this text is
The aphoristic foundation of the Jaimini system — sign-based aspects, movable significators and rāśi daśās — a method distinct from the Parāśari mainstream.
Four chapters of sūtras: the chara-kārakas (movable significators), ārūḍha padas, sign aspects, rāśi daśās (chara daśā and kin), longevity by sign-pairs, and kārakāṁśa analysis.
Its role in this app
Seats our kāraka doctrine — sūtra 1.1.10’s own "seven or eight" is why both kāraka schemes ship labeled rather than one silently chosen; chara-daśā computation detail, Jaimini longevity, and the kārakāṁśa/ārūḍha facts the engine reports with degree-ties flagged, not resolved.
Editions our research holds
bs-rao-1955-fulltext
B. Suryanarain Rao translation, 1955 printing — the workhorse; the translator died in 1937, so the translation is public domain in India.
public domain · scan quality: good
b-suryanarain-rao
Same Rao translation, DLI scan.
public domain · scan quality: poor
suresh-chandra-mishra-hindi
Suresh Chandra Mishra Hindi translation and commentary (Ranjan) — good chara-daśā detail.
in copyright — read for verification only, never republished · scan quality: usable
Readings on this site cite texts at chapter level, with verse numbers only where our research verified the passage in a named edition. How conflicts between texts are resolved is documented on the conventions page.