Jaimini Sutras

The name of Maharishi Jaimini is held in high esteem and reverence among the Sanskrit writers of eminence and probably he is held only next to Maharishi Vedavyasa. Jaimini is the disciple of Vyasa, and besides being a writer of various treatises and the Epic Jaimini Bharata, he is the famous author of Poorva Mimamsa Sastra, and these able aphorisms in Astrology called after his name as the JAIMINI More

The name of Maharishi Jaimini is held in high esteem and reverence among the Sanskrit writers of eminence and probably he is held only next to Maharishi Vedavyasa. Jaimini is the disciple of Vyasa, and besides being a writer of various treatises and the Epic Jaimini Bharata, he is the famous author of Poorva Mimamsa Sastra, and these able aphorisms in Astrology called after his name as the JAIMINISUTRAS. The Maharishis, so far as their intellectual development was, concerned, stood altogether on a unique pedestal unapproached by any other authors in the world. They expanded their intellects not by ordinary study, patient labour and devotion but by the mystic processes of Yoga. Thus expanding their mental vision by a peculiar process still unknown to the greatest scholars of the present day, they were able to grasp the causes and effects of the celestial and terrestrial phenomena with the greatest ease and on. A scale of understanding and comprehension of facts at which the present generations stand surprised and wonderstruck. Take Maharishi Vedavyasa the great grandson of Vasishta, the grandson of Sakti, the son of Parasara and the father of Maharishi Shuka who is held in the highest esteem by the great Rishis themselves for this piety, Brahmagnana, and unalloyed purity of life. Vyasa has written 18 Puranas including the Mahabharata, enclosing the immortal Bhagavadgita, great Siddhanta after his name on Astronomy, several works on Astrology and the most profound Brahmasutras, called Uttara-Mimamsa. This colossal collection of literature relating to all branches of human knowledge stands as a monument to the grandeur of his glorious intellect and it will be a real surprise to the cultured public, if any other name in the world could be ,compared to this intellectual giant. In addition to all these works, he was able to systematise and put in proper order the Four Vedas and thus earn the most envious title of Vedavyasa or one who put the Vedas in their present form and sequence. Jaimini was a worthy disciple of Vedavyasa and has bequeathed to humanity, many valuable works among which stand foremost Jaimini Bharata, Poorva- Mimamsa and the Jaiminisutras on Astrology. In the various branches of the Sanskrit Sciences the sutras are a wonder of Sanskrit literature. We do not know if there is any other language in this world which has anything like the sutras. A sutra may thus be defined as the shortest in form with the largest meaning possible.