A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c8.99

c8.99

This Sûtra is explained by Haradatta in the following manner: — "The Vedas are the highest authority for good and bad; and none of the objections made before could apply to the Vedas, which are faultless from all eternity, evident by themselves, and, as they were revealed, unaffected by the faults of human authors. Therefore, while to us those agreements are of authority which were made by men who knew the law, the Vedas, again, were the authority for those men themselves, like Manu, &c. And although we have not before our eyes a Veda, which is the source of these laws, we must still conclude that Manu and the rest had."²