A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c8.103

c8.103

दिना तैः प्राधान्येन वेदमूलत्वाभिधानात् &c. Cf. Yâjnavalkya, ed. Stenzler, i. 56., i. 40.; Manu, iii. 12, 13., where the Commentator mentions Vâsisṭha as having spoken of the marriage of a Brahman with a Śûdrâ, the ceremony not being accompanied by sacred hymns, as a kind of morganatic marriage, kâmato vivâhaḥ, वासिष्ठोऽपि शूद्रामप्येके मंचवर्जमिति मंचवर्जितं शूद्राविवाहमाह॥ commit themselves to novel theories, but almost always repeat what existed before in the tradition of their schools; a fact which at once increases and diminishes the usefulness of their works. Thus we find in the case before us, that Âpastamba himself, whose Sûtras Haradatta explains, entertained a similar opinion on this subject. In the twelfth section of his Sûtras, when speaking of some rules on the Svâdhyâya (praying), he says¹, “that certain rules must be considered as given in Brâhmaṇas of which the tradition or reading has been destroyed. Their former existence,” he says, “must be inferred from