The Rashtrakutas and their Times c20.73

c20.73

It will be thus seen that the Smriti writers of our period were showing a tendency to make the simple Smārta religion as rigid and complex as the S'rauta one; detailed rules, hardly leaving much scope for individual liberty, began to be framed for *s'aucha*, *dantadhāvana*, bath, *āchamana* etc. S'rauta sacrifices had died down in our period but the rigidity of ritualistic details which characterised them became a prominent feature of the Smarta religion from about the 12th century onwards. Our period was the transition period.