The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c21.33
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c21.33
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The specimen given above will suffice to show the artless style of these didactic Sūtras. They have in fact no style save that attained by scrupulous brevity. In the following paragraphs we shall seek rather to illustrate certain phases of the Gṛihya Sūtras as indicative of religious and magical beliefs and of the social environment in which they were produced, or at least for which they were intended.