History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v2.c28.s1.64

v2.c28.s1.64

This theory again is contradicted to our mind by the Parāśara Smṛiti itself which is specially intended for the Kali age. In this Smṛiti various texts give special provisions for Kshatriyas and Vaiśyas. If indeed in the Kali age there were no Kshatriyas and Vaiśyas where was the necessity of making the special provisions intended for these varṇas? The Smṛiti does not contemplate, therefore, the non-existence of these varṇas and as this Smṛiti may be assigned to the 7th or 8th century one may infer that this view had not arisen yet. The Parāśara Smṛiti to our mind belongs to the south as the sanctity of the Setu Tīrtha is specially extolled in it. But whether it arose in the south or the north, it certainly does not look upon Kshatriyas as non-existent in the Kali age.