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Baudhayana- Bodhayana. Baudhayana is a very celebrated name in the long line of scholars of very ancient India. There have been many eminent persons in various fields of study going by the name of Baudhayana. It is also said that Bodhayana is the Southern form of Baudhayana. To start with, there is a single reference to one Jara-Bodha in the Rig Veda:.

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Jara-bodha tad vividdhi vise-vise yagniyaya stoman rudraya drisikam RV 1. Here, he is praised as a hero of high knowledge and wide fame; and, one who awakens others. The term Bodha is also used in the sense of illumination, awakening. Thus, it is deduced that the name Jara Bodha Bodha the elder might refer to a sage who was alert even in his ripe old age.

Bodha is also the name of a Risi in the Mantra Patha 2. He is mentioned in the last Vamsa list of teachers of Madhyamdina recession of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6. There is also mention of Prati-Bodha along with Bodha in two pass ages of the Atharvaveda,. Kena Upanishad Section 2.

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The names Bodha and Prati- Bodha obviously refer to persons having alert, watchful mind and a sort of intuition. And, there is also a Prati-Bodha-Putra who is said to be the son of a female descendent of Prati Bodha. She is mentioned as a teacher in the Aitareya Aranyaka 3 1, 5 and Sankyayana Aranyaka 7. Baudhayana-s as Sutrakara-s.