The History of Indian Literature c8.139

c8.139

For both Gṛihya-Sútras there are commentaries by the same Náráyaṇa who commented the Śrauta-Sútra of Áśvaláyana.⁵⁰ They probably belong to the fifteenth century.∗ There are, besides, as in the case of the Śrauta-Sútras, many small treatises in connection with the Gṛihya-Sútras, some of them being summaries, in which the larger works are reduced to system. Among them is a Paddhati to the Śáṅkháyana-Gṛihya by Rámachandra, who lived in the Naimisha forest in the middle of the fifteenth century; and I am inclined to think that this Naimisha forest was the birthplace of the Sútra itself. It is perhaps for this reason that the tradition connected with it was so well preserved in that district.