SAUNAKA i. 1) General. A renowned acarya. He is believed to be the author of the famous works - Rgveda Anukramani, Aranyakam, Rkpratisakhya, etc. The famous Asvalayanacarya was Saunakas disciple. Acaryas like Katyayana, Patanjali and Vyasa belonged to his class. Saunakas real name was Grtsamada. It was because he was the son of Sunaka that he got the name Saunaka. 2) Birth. Saunahotra, the son of the sage Sunahotra, once performed a yaga. Indra attended that yaga. At that time Saunahotra rescued Indra from an attack of the Asuras. Indra who was pleased at this, blessed Saunahotra that he would be born in his next birth in the Bhrgu family under the name Saunaka. 3) Genealogy In Vayu Purana his genealogy is given in two forms. i) Ruru ( PramadvarJ) - Sunaka-Suunaka-Ugrasravas ii) Dharmavrddha - Sunahotra Grtsamada Sunaka Saunaka. (Vayu Puraaa, 92, 26) . 4) Important works. Saunaka is believed to be the author of numerous works. The most important of them are given below: (1) Rkpratisakhya (2 ) RgvedacchandanukramanI (3) Rgvedarsyanukramam (4) Rgveda Anuvakanukramani (5) Rgvedasuktanukramam (6) RgvedakathanuSAUNAKA n 711 SAVARNA I kramanl (7) Rgvedapadavidhana (8) Brhaddevata (9) Saunakasmrti (10) Caranavyuha and (11) Rgvidhana. Matsya Purana, Chapter 252 mentions that Saunaka had written a work on the science of architecture. 5) Disciples. The chief disciple of Saunaka was Asvalayana. Once Asvalayana wrote and dedicated to his Guru (master) two treatises entitled Grhyasutra and Srautasutra to please him. After reading it, Saunaka destroyed his own work on SrauteSastra. Asvalayana wrote his treatise after having studied the ten works of Saunaka on Rgveda. Katyayana, the disciple of Asvalayana later received the ten books written by Saunaka and the three books written by Asvalayana. Katyayana gave his disciple Patanjali, the two works, Yajurvedakalpasutra and Samaveda Upagrantha which were written by himself. From this we may infer that the series of Saunakas disciples was as follows: Saunaka Asvalayana Katyayana Patanjali Vyasa.
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