Editing Bharadvaja (section)

==Texts==
Bharadvaja and his family of students are 55.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Stephanie Jamison|author2= Joel Brereton| title=The Rigveda: 3-Volume Set|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=fgzVAwAAQBAJ| year=2014| publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-972078-1|pages=1691–1693}}</ref> Bharadvaja and his family of students were the traditional poets of king Marutta of the Vedic era, in the Hindu texts.<ref>{{cite journal| last=Brereton| first= Joel P.| title= The Bharadvajas in Ancient India| journal= The Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume= 113| number= 4| year= 1993| pages= 599–600| doi= 10.2307/605794| jstor= 605794}}</ref>

Bharadvaja is a revered sage in the Hindu traditions, and like other revered sages, numerous treatises composed in the ancient and medieval eras are reverentially named after him. Some treatises named after him or attributed to him include:
* ''Dhanur-veda'', credited to Bharadvaja in chapter 12.203 of the ''[[Mahabharata]]'', is an Upaveda treatise on archery.<ref>{{cite book|author=Barbara A. Holdrege|title=Veda and Torah: Transcending the Textuality of Scripture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YlvikndgEmIC&pg=PA657 |year=2012|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-1-4384-0695-4|page=504 note 177}}</ref>
* ''Bharadvaja samhita'', a [[Pancharatra]] text (an [[Agama (Hinduism)|Agama]] text of [[Vaishnavism]]).<ref name="Dasgupta1940">{{cite book|author=Surendranath Dasgupta|title=A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume III|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l-TCIGuP9YIC&pg=PA379 |year=1940|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-04780-7|page=379}}</ref>
* ''Bharadvaja srautasutra and grhyasutra'', a ritual and rites of passage text from first millennium BCE.<ref>{{cite book|author=Thaneswar Sharma |title=The Bharadvājas in Ancient India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xFyu7MANWPAC&pg=PA253|year=1991|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0639-9|page=253 note 17a}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Adam Bowles|title=Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India: The Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9MOwCQAAQBAJ |year=2007|publisher=BRILL Academic|isbn=978-90-474-2260-0|pages=xiii (see: BhaGS)}}</ref><ref>A. Berriedale Keith (1914), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25189257 Reviewed Work: Bhāradvāja Gṛhya Sütra by Henriette J. W. Salomons], The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1078–1089</ref> After the ''Kalpasutra'' by Baudhayana, these Bharadvaja texts are among the oldest ''srauta'' and ''grhya'' sutras known.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Moriz Winternitz |author-link1=Moriz Winternitz |author2=V. Srinivasa Sarma |title=A History of Indian Literature |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JRfuJFRV_O8C |year=1996 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0264-3|page=259}}</ref>
* Sections in ''[[Ayurveda]]''. Bharadvaja theories on medicine and causal phenomenon is described in ''[[Charaka Samhita]]''. Bharadvaja states, for example, that an embryo is not caused by wish, prayers, urging of mind or mystical causes, but it is produced from the union of a man's sperm and menstrual blood of a woman at the right time of her menstrual cycle, in her womb.<ref>{{cite book|author=D. Wujastyk|title=The Roots of Ayurveda: Selections from Sanskrit Medical Writings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TaZCwjtmzZYC&pg=PA51|year=2003|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-044824-5|pages=51–53}}</ref><ref name="Meulenbeld1999p152">{{cite book|author=Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld|title=A History of Indian Medical Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wbwrAAAAYAAJ|year=1999|publisher=E. Forsten|isbn=978-90-6980-124-7|pages=152–155}}</ref> According to [[Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld]], Bharadvaja is credited with many theories and practical ideas in ancient Indian medicine.<ref name="Meulenbeld1999p152"/>
* ''Niti sastra'', a treatise on ethics and practical conduct.<ref name="Meulenbeld1999p153">{{cite book|author=Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld|title=A History of Indian Medical Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wbwrAAAAYAAJ|year=1999|publisher=E. Forsten|isbn=978-90-6980-124-7|page=153}}</ref>
* ''Bharadvaja-siksa'', is one of many ancient Sanskrit treatises on phonetics.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Moriz Winternitz|author-link1=Moriz Winternitz|author2=V. Srinivasa Sarma|title=A History of Indian Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRfuJFRV_O8C&pg=PA266 |year=1996|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0264-3|pages=266 with footnotes}}</ref>